Eric Shanes

•-A. INTRODUCTION It is perhaps unsurprising tliat Salvador Dalí has proven to be one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, for his finest works explore universal and timeless states of mind, and most of his pictures were painted with a mastery of traditional...

J.M.W. Turner: a Landscape and Marine Painter without Equal? From darkness to light: perhaps no painter in the history of western art evolved over a greater visual span than Turner. If we compare one of his earliest exhibited masterworks, such as the fairly low-keyed St. Anselm's Chapel, with part...