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Which artist's work did John Ruskin defend in his first volume of Modern Painters?

  • Pablo Picasso

  • Vincent Van Gogh

  • J. M. W. Turner

  • Claude Monet

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John Ruskin first came to widespread attention with the first volume of Modern Painters (1843), an extended essay in defence of the work of J. M. W. Turner. He argued that the principal role of the artist is "truth to nature".
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