Article 71BRN Documentary explores whether JMW Turner may have been neurodivergent

Documentary explores whether JMW Turner may have been neurodivergent

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Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
from World news | The Guardian on (#71BRN)

Programme uses artist's sketches, drawings and watercolours to build unprecedented psychological portrait

He is widely regarded as England's greatest painter, but despite his extraordinary output, elements of JMW Turner's personality have remained a mystery.

Now, a groundbreaking BBC documentary delves into Turner's 37,000 sketches, drawings and watercolours to build an unprecedented psychological portrait, one that raises the possibility that Turner's singular vision was shaped by childhood trauma and neurodivergence.

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