CONSTABLE

Παρουσίαση

No artist has rivalled John Constable (1776-1837) in his powers to express the beauties of the British countryside, especially the scenery of the native East Anglia. He sought above all to make «pure and unaffected representations of the scenes», and to this end he made detailed studies of the minutest phenomena of nature. He wrote: «my limited and abstracted art is to be found under every hedge, and in every lane...» But this feeling for such qualities has to be reconciled with the traditional -and what were for him the essential- demands of painting pictures for public exhibition. In this book many of the most famous pictures are reproduced, showing how Constable adjusted the fresh, spontaneous handling of paint in his sketches to more formal academic requirements. (...)
(ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)