Thoughts on William Turner's painting Fisherman at Sea?

Question

I just need a quick review... Like what you feel when you see it and what you think it's purpose was? Can you analyze it in words? What's your interpretation of it?

Answer 1

Fisherman at Sea is a dark painting portraying rough sea with boats caught in the squall. The focal point of the painting is magically illuminated by a lantern on one of the small boats. The illumination from that small boat floods the lower left of the painting. The flood of light is much like a "light in the darkness" or the flood of light that was found in the Jesus' empty tomb. In a secular words, simply hope. The illumination changes the dark to hope. The boats are small and ill equipped to survive the fierce conditions of the storm, but the illumination from that singular lantern generates a hope.

Answer 2

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Thoughts on William Turner's painting Fisherman at Sea?

I just need a quick review... Like what you feel when you see it and what you think it's purpose was? Can you analyze it in words? What's your interpretation of it?

Answer 3

I like it.

It pretty full.