Comments on: The Turner Prize http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/the-turner-prize/ tweets, rants and raves Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:38:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: madsilence http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/the-turner-prize/#comment-1049 madsilence Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:30:25 +0000 http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/?p=516#comment-1049 Interesting that the prize is named after 19th century British painter J. M. W. Turner. I recently visited the Turner exhibition at NYC’s Met Museum of Art. Apparently Turner was quite a radical in his day, a champion of landscape painitng and watercolor. I wonder how he’d view the art of recent prize winners? MadSilence Interesting that the prize is named after 19th century British painter J. M. W. Turner. I recently visited the Turner exhibition at NYC’s Met Museum of Art. Apparently Turner was quite a radical in his day, a champion of landscape painitng and watercolor. I wonder how he’d view the art of recent prize winners?

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