ABSTRACT
Whether we reference the ancient wisdom of the Bible or consider the Big Bang theory of the universe's origin, we are speaking of a great cosmic flash that ultimately brought substance to what lacked form and eventually life growing from the goodness of that light. This chapter examines some aspects of the life of J. M. W. Turner, who many consider the greatest landscape painter ever to have lived, and in this short biographical study identify two invariants in his life that seem to have fueled his creative talents in order to transform these powerful affective experiences through his art. Turner, perhaps the most famous of all British painters, was greatly influenced by the concept of the Sublime and his landscape paintings excelled as the greatest expression of this trend among Romantic period artists. Turner's paintings continued to become more abstract and the images lacked discernible form.
