Turner's art has always been controversial. This section shows how artists and writers such as Constable, Ruskin, and Matisse responded to his work; we have also invited a number of present day artists, writers, historians and others to talk about Turner, or about a particular work in the new displays in the Clore Galleries.
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John Ruskin was incredibly fond of Turner's paintings, and worked tirelessly to promote them after Turner's death. (At that point Turner was more mocked than revered by critics - it seems Ruskin can be credited for lot of the posthumous respect Turner acquired. May we all be so lucky to have someone like Ruskin to champion our works.)
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via the Tate:
John Ruskin on Turner'Introduced to-day to the man who beyond all doubt is the greatest of the age; greatest in every faculty of the imagination, in every branch of scenic knowledge; at once the painter and poet of the day...
I found in him a somewhat eccentric, keen-mannered, matter-of-fact, English-minded gentleman: good-natured evidently, bad-tempered evidently, hating humbug of all sorts, shrewd, perhaps a little selfish, highly intellectual, the powers of his mind not brought out with any delight in their manifestation, or intention of display, but flashing out occasionally in a word or a look.'
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