His work spans many years and changes from very classical landscapes to landscapes that make the eye travel through with the use of light and color to express emotion and feeling. ... Early on Turner revealed, through his works "Fisherman at Sea" and "Moonlight: a Study of Millbank," that he had a sensitive eye for color, even in dark night scenes. ... In this painting, he leaves behind the "conventional composition of a dark foreground and a luminous distance taking the eye inward into the centre" (Chamot 9). ... "Even the earlier of these paintings, though at first sight more or less m...

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This particular artwork shows his trend towards abstraction as each of the three riders, riding past the blue mountain, the red tree and under the yellow sky, are each themselves of a different color. ... The eye is either warmed or else soothed and cooled. ... But although  the effect of the colors is forgotten when the eye is turned  away, the superficial impression of varied color may be the  starting point of a whole chain of related sensations"11. ...

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He eventually evoked the possibility that his quest of primordial seeing was due to an eye condition more than a flash of genius. ... The environment around them is vague: we see two portraits against a wall - except that Cézanne added a red chair in the picture (most likely the same armchair seen in some of his wife's portraits). ...

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