John Constable S Skies

Author : John E. Thornes,John Constable
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1902459024

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John Constable's Skies by John E. Thornes,John Constable Pdf

John Constable is arguably the most accomplished painter of English skies and weather of all time. For Constable, the sky was the keynote, the standard of scale and the chief organ of sentiment in a landscape painting. But how far did he understand the workings of the forces of nature which created his favourite cumulus clouds, portrayed in so many of his skies over the landscapes of Hampstead Heath, Salisbury and Suffolk? And were the skies he painted scientifically accurate? In this lucid and accessible study, John Thornes provides a meteorological framework for reading the skies of landscape art, compares Constable's skies to those produced by other artists from the middle ages to the nineteenth century, analyses Constable's own meteorological understanding, and examines the development of his painted skies. In so doing he provides fresh evidence to identify the year of painting of some of Constable's previously undated cloud studies.

Author : Mark Evans
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500480328

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Constable's Skies by Mark Evans Pdf

A beautiful, gift-sized volume celebrating Constable’s enduring fascination and engagement with the sky John Constable was one of the supreme painters of the weather, and his depictions of the sky are essential components of all his landscape paintings, from famous works such as The Hay Wain and Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows to his numerous cloud studies painted on Hampstead Heath, culminating in paintings that are all sky; the landscape beneath is completely absent. In a letter to friend John Fisher, written in 1821, Constable commented, “That landscape painter who does not make his skies a very material part of his composition, neglects to avail himself of one of his greatest aids . . . It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.” Written by Mark Evans, a leading authority on the work of John Constable, and brimming with beautiful images, Constable’s Skies captures the artist’s fascination with the sky and brings together his depictions of the English weather from throughout his career. The unprecedented fidelity of Constable’s painted skies is proven by reference to contemporary weather diaries. The book also includes a guide to where to find Constable’s work around the world.

Author : John Constable
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015053745975

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Constable's Clouds by John Constable Pdf

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Author : John Constable,Freda Constable
Publisher : Lawrence Salander Publications
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X004766791

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Constable's Skies by John Constable,Freda Constable Pdf

Author : James Hamilton
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781474612937

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Constable by James Hamilton Pdf

ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday Times 'A biography as rich with colourful characters as any novel' Telegraph John Constable, the revolutionary nineteenth-century painter of the landscapes and skies of southern England, is Britain's best-loved but perhaps least understood artist. His paintings reflect visions of landscape that shocked and perplexed his contemporaries: attentive to detail, spontaneous in gesture, brave in their use of colour. What we learn from his landscapes is that Constable had sharp local knowledge of Suffolk, a clarity of expression of the skyscapes above Hampstead, an understanding of the human tides in London and Brighton, and a rare ability in his late paintings of Salisbury Cathedral to transform silent suppressed passion into paint. Yet Constable was also an active and energetic correspondent. His letters and diaries - there are over one thousand letters from and to him - reveal a man of passion, opinion and discord, while his character and personality is concealed behind the high shimmering colour of his paintings. They reveal too the lives and circumstances of his brothers and his sisters, his cousins and his aunts, who serve to define the social and economic landscape against which he can be most clearly seen. These multifaceted reflections draw a sharp picture of the person, as well as the painter. James Hamilton's biography reveals a complex, troubled man, and explodes previous mythologies about this timeless artist, and establishes him in his proper context as a giant of European art.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912520729

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Late Constable Hb by Anonim Pdf

On John Constable as a proto-abstractionist of pastoral landscape One of Britain's greatest landscape painters, John Constable was brought up in Dedham Vale, the valley of the River Stour in Suffolk. The eldest son of a wealthy mill owner, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1800 at the age of 24, and thereafter committed himself to painting nature out of doors. His "six-footers," such as The Hay Wainand The Leaping Horse, were designed to promote landscape as a subject and to stand out in the Academy's Annual Exhibition. Despite this, he sold few paintings in his lifetime and was elected a Royal Academician late in his career. With texts by leading authorities on the artist, this handsome book looks at the freedom of Constable's late works and records his enormous contribution to the English landscape tradition. John Constable(1776-1837) is one of Britain's best-known artists, and is often considered one of the greatest landscape painters of all time. He was born near the River Stour in Suffolk, an area the artist depicted so frequently that it is referred to as "Constable country." Pastoral scenes were unfashionable at the time and Constable struggled to establish himself as a painter. He was finally elected a Royal Academician in 1829, and in 1832, he exhibited The Opening of Waterloo Bridge--an effort 13 years in the making--at the Summer Exhibition.

Author : Shân Lancaster
Publisher : Scala
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 178551069X

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Constable and Brighton by Shân Lancaster Pdf

The first comprehensive guide to Constable's lesser-known but significant works inspired by the bustling Regency resort of Brighton. There was more to John Constable's art than the great rural landscapes for which he is famous. This lavishly illustrated book focuses on a largely overlooked element in his life - his close and artistically rewarding relationship with the boisterous resort of Brighton during the years 1824-28. He went in search of healthy air for his ailing wife Maria and the peace to help him clear a backlog of commissions, and became accustomed to painting on the beach or up by the windmills that dotted the Sussex Downs. More than 100 small, vivid studies from these walks exist, most dashed off outside in all weathers, some that are almost abstract responses to storms or the light on the sea. This book assembles the most complete collection of these Brighton sketches ever published, some of them only recently discovered. Regency Brighton - what was then the largest and most fashionable resort in Europe - is also explored through maps and prints, tracing the routes Constable took through the developing town. His great contemporary, Turner, was also active there in the mid-1820s, and a range of contrasting views by both artists is featured here. AUTHOR: Shan Lancaster is a writer, editor and researcher. As a freelance journalist she has written for most national newspaper titles and as a researcher she has collaborated on numerous book developments, and television and film scripts, including the BBC Four television documentary Constable: A Country Rebel, first aired in 2014. Her research originally identified the exact location of Constable's lodgings at 9 Sober's Gardens, now 11 Sillwood Road, Brighton, and marked with a Blue Plaque. SELLING POINTS: * Features the most comprehensive selection of Constable's Brighton studies ever assembled, including works from private collections never published before * Contains an exquisite bonus selection of Turner's marine studies of Brighton from the same period, alongside authoritative texts on both artists * A beautifully illustrated book written to accompany a major exhibition, Constable and Brighton, at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in 2017 150 colour

Author : Anna Pavord
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781408868942

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Landskipping by Anna Pavord Pdf

Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first started to paint English scenery, and the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind of visitor, the landscape tourist. Early travel guides sought to capture the beauty and inspiration of waterfall, lake and fell. Sublime! Picturesque! they said, as they laid down rules for correctly appreciating a view. While painters painted and writers wrote, an entirely different band of men, the agricultural improvers, also travelled the land, and published a series of remarkable commentaries on the state of agricultural England. They looked at the land in terms of its usefulness as well as its beauty, and, using their reports, Anna Pavord explores the many different ways that land was managed and farmed, showing that what is universal is a place's capacity to frame and define our experience. Moving from the rolling hills of Dorset to the peaks of the Scottish Highlands, this is an exquisite and compelling book, written with zest, passion and deep understanding.

Author : Mark Evans
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 1851778004

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John Constable by Mark Evans Pdf

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, September 20, 2014-January 11, 2015.

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780141917986

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Ways of Seeing by John Berger Pdf

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled." John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

Author : William Vaughan
Publisher : Tate
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 1849762775

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Tate British Artists: John Constable by William Vaughan Pdf

John Constable (1776-1837) is best known for his idyllic paintings of the English countryside. Yet he was also a brilliant innovator who brought a new vivacity to the observation of nature. He practiced oil painting in the open air, capturing in particular the "effervescent" effects of atmospherics--as can be seen, for example, in his wonderful studies of clouds. His art became a benchmark for naturalist painters throughout Europe and America in the 19th century, and he continues to be one of the most popular and influential artists today. This book draws extensively on the artist's own correspondence to provide a fresh understanding of his artistic aims and achievements, and reassesses his role in the development of modern art.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : England
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000130207

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English Landscape Scenery by Anonim Pdf

Author : Graham Reynolds,John Constable
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art, English
ISBN : 9780870993350

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Constable's England by Graham Reynolds,John Constable Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Artists
ISBN : YALE:39002088543880

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Life and Letters of John Constable, R.A. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000571835

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John Constable's Sketch-books of 1813 and 1814 Reproduced in Facsimile: Catalogue of sketch-books by Victoria and Albert Museum Pdf