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Snow Storm Steamboat Off A Harbor's Mouth Summary

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Joseph Mallord William Turner’s art piece named “Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbor’s Mouth” is a very original landscape with a limited amount of bright colors. The landscape shows a ship that appears to be surrounded by a very dark storm. The color scheme the painter used was for the most part neutral,dark, pale colors that gave the art piece an additional darker tone, however he also decided to add an intense white color in the middle, where the ship happened to be located. The bright white color ties in with the part of the art piece Turner wanted the viewer to focus on, in other words where he wanted to create emphasis. The storm has different shades of dark colors with a tint of a pale white color while the ship appears to be a bright

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