Turner and frida

Turner was a brilliant artist of the Romanticism, also known as the painter of light. He painted landscapes, but what was very interesting about him was his double personality in painting, he could paint beautiful happy landscapes and in other hand he was the master of chaos. Turner painted moving scenes; he was very interested in the affection of humanity, and the sublime of nature. He was one voice looking for justice when he painted the slave ship by painting such an emotive subject Turner was attempting to assist in the abolitionist slave campaign.

The way he used to represent his feeling about the things in which he believed reminds me the Mexican painter Frida Khalo who through her paintings was able to talk about her feeling but, she was more about herself. Also she shared a feature with Turner which was this double personality, she painted happy surrealist themes but also chaotic destructive ones, which was linked with her love for Diego Rivera. For example she had paintings about nature and life but others (a lot) talk about her painful love for Diego or her depression about not being able to have babies. Just as turner we have an artist who’s internal tragedy and thoughts became the source their artwork.