... to their imaginations. Writers and artists began to explore the artistic and emotional qualities of immensity, darkness and terror. The word 'Sublime' was used to describe the feelings resulting from the representation of these qualities. JMW Turner highlighted the power of nature compared with the helplessness of mankind, and used landscape to evoke heightened emotional states. Turner's ideas were developed and exaggerated by John Martin. Martin's paintings were dismissed as vulgar by the Royal Academy, but were however extremely popular with the public. The highlight of this success was his Judgement Series, completed in 1853 and exhibited across Britain and the United States for twenty years after his death. The Great Day of His Wrath John Martin's magnificent painting of the Apocalypse, The Great Day of His Wrath, really caught my eye. As an onlooker I found myself being swept, confused and disorientated into the middle of the painting towards some ...

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