Author: John ConstablePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Attempts to match paintings with ideas and tries to establish
Constable's Clouds
Author: John ConstablePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Attempts to match paintings with ideas and tries to establish
John Constable's Skies
Author: John E. ThornesPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781902459028
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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.
Constable's Skies
Author: Mark EvansPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 050048032X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Researches about Atmospheric Phaenomena
Author: Thomas ForsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clouds
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
John Constable's Clouds
Author: Kurt BadtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clouds in art
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
John Constable
Author: James HamiltonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639362738
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
A fresh and lively biography of the revolutionary landscape painter John Constable. John Constable, who captured the landscapes and skies of southern England in a way never before seen on canvas, is beloved but little-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 color. His landscapes show that he had sharp local knowledge of the environment. His skyscapes show a clarity of expression rarely seen in other artist's work. The figures within show an understanding of the human tides of his time. And his late paintings of Salisbury Cathedral show a rare ability to transform silent, suppressed passion into paint. Constable was also an active and energetic correspondent. His letters and diaries reveal a man of opinion, passion, and discord. His letters also reveal the lives and circumstances of his extended family 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 and troubled man. Hamilton's portrait explodes previous mythologies about this timeless artist and establishes him in his proper context as a giant of European art.
Constable's Clouds
Author: John ConstablePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
'Skies must and always shall with me make an effectual part of the composition,' wrote John Constable
John Constable's Clouds
Author: Kurt BadtPublisher: Albert Saifer
ISBN: 9780875560175
Category : Clouds in art
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
John Constable - CLOUDS IN PAINTINGS & SKETCHES
Author: E. L. Helton PhDPublisher: Meadowbrook Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Born in East Bergholt, Suffolk on 11 June 1776, Constable was the second son of the six children of Golding Constable and Ann Watts. He was educated at a private school in Lavenham and at the grammar school in Dedham, subsequently joining the family business, of which it was intended he would succeed as manager. He learned the technique of painting from John Dunthorne (a local plumber and glazier who was an amateur painter), and was encouraged by Sir George Beaumont. Staying with relatives at Edmonton in 1796 he met John Cranch, a mediocre artist whose style he imitated, and John Thomas Smith, the antiquarian draftsman, with whom he made drawings of picturesque cottages. In 1799 his father gave him an allowance to enter the Royal Academy Schools, reluctantly consenting in 1802 to his becoming a professional painter. That same year Constable showed his first landscape at the Academy (where he was to exhibit nearly every year until his death), and acquired a studio opposite the family house. He spent summers in East Bergholt, sketching from nature, until 1817; in the autumn of 1806 he made a two-month visit to the Lake District. In 1809 Constable met and fell in love with Maria Bicknell, but he was unable to marry her until 1816 owing to the opposition of Maria's grandfather. After the marriage the couple lived in London, first on Keppel Street, then, after 1822, on Charlotte Street. The marriage, which was the prelude to Constable's finest work, was a deeply happy one, and there were seven children, to whom the artist was devoted; Maria's health was far from robust, however, and she died in 1828, a blow from which Constable never fully recovered.
Constable
Author: Sarah CovePublisher: Tate Publishing(UK)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This study concentrates on the six foot canvases of the River Stour produced by Constable between 1819 and 1825 and examines the artist's development of this single thematic concept. Each work is shown beside its compositional sketch, illustrating his artistic process.