Turner's Use Of Blood And Water By George Berger

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Turner has very close relation with his father. When Berger discusses how much Turner’s father’s shop of barber affects his later painting style, he writes: “picture [is] always possible combination, suggested by a barber’s shop, of blood and water, water and blood”(215). It confuses the meaning by using the same words in a similar form. I may regard the first form of “blood and water” means the spirit of inheritance those come from his father’s shop (215). This is usually the first understanding and response towards blood and water for most people. Then, the second form of “water and blood” perhaps represents Tuner’s painting elements (215). The water is a metaphor for the steam, rain, river, sea, and coastline that shows on productions. The

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