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John Constable was born in 1776 to the owners of a prosperous mill in a fertile farming area of England. Constable showed an interest in art but no real skill so it was difficult for him to convince his father to allow him to pursue a career in art. However, in 1799 at the age of twenty-three constable was able to enroll at the Royal Academy School in London.
At the Royal Academy Constable meet Sir George Beaumont an art collector. Beaumont allowed Constable to look over his collection of famous works, many of which were landscapes. This experience, along with copying many of the paintings in his Beaumont’s collection had a large influence in bring Constable to latter become chiefly a landscape painter. Author Guiseppe Gatt credits Richard Wilson, Turner, and Gainsborough all as Constable’s main …show more content…
When Henry Fuseli viewed Constable landscapes he said they made him, “Call for my great coat and umbrella.” Some aspects to note in a Constable painting include thick brush strokes in some areas compared to smooth water-color-like texture found in others areas of the same painting. Constable used a wide variety of colors from pale to brilliant bright tones. And, the reason this paper is being written, Constable’s use of light in his paintings. The sky in any one of Constable’s canvasses is just breathtaking. The clouds transform from dark and ominous layers to bright and hopeful rays that break through shining hope into both the painting and the viewer. The way Constable captures the sun’s brilliance causes the observer to wonder whether it is safe to gaze directly into its light—at least it makes me wonder if it will hurt my …show more content…
The viewer can almost tell which season Constable is displaying by the mere shade of shadows present in the work. The sun and lighting also hint at the season. This study of seasons and their differences goes along with what one review remarked about Constable’s message in art, saying that if there was one message that Constable wanted to put across with his artworks it would be that there is no natural happening that is too “insignificant” for art.
John Constable was one of the first artists to use these styles in his painting. As mentioned before Wilson, Turner, and Gainsborough were all influences on Constable, but there were still more artist whose work had influence on his style as well. The works of Rubens, Ruysdael, Claude, and Girtin were all copied by Constable. He would copy as closely as he could the works of these artists to learn their techniques and styles. Then Constable would incorporate what he wanted into his own style. However, Constable did not conform strictly to their art forms, he created his own.
Constable’s Works of
At the Royal Academy Constable meet Sir George Beaumont an art collector. Beaumont allowed Constable to look over his collection of famous works, many of which were landscapes. This experience, along with copying many of the paintings in his Beaumont’s collection had a large influence in bring Constable to latter become chiefly a landscape painter. Author Guiseppe Gatt credits Richard Wilson, Turner, and Gainsborough all as Constable’s main …show more content…
When Henry Fuseli viewed Constable landscapes he said they made him, “Call for my great coat and umbrella.” Some aspects to note in a Constable painting include thick brush strokes in some areas compared to smooth water-color-like texture found in others areas of the same painting. Constable used a wide variety of colors from pale to brilliant bright tones. And, the reason this paper is being written, Constable’s use of light in his paintings. The sky in any one of Constable’s canvasses is just breathtaking. The clouds transform from dark and ominous layers to bright and hopeful rays that break through shining hope into both the painting and the viewer. The way Constable captures the sun’s brilliance causes the observer to wonder whether it is safe to gaze directly into its light—at least it makes me wonder if it will hurt my …show more content…
The viewer can almost tell which season Constable is displaying by the mere shade of shadows present in the work. The sun and lighting also hint at the season. This study of seasons and their differences goes along with what one review remarked about Constable’s message in art, saying that if there was one message that Constable wanted to put across with his artworks it would be that there is no natural happening that is too “insignificant” for art.
John Constable was one of the first artists to use these styles in his painting. As mentioned before Wilson, Turner, and Gainsborough were all influences on Constable, but there were still more artist whose work had influence on his style as well. The works of Rubens, Ruysdael, Claude, and Girtin were all copied by Constable. He would copy as closely as he could the works of these artists to learn their techniques and styles. Then Constable would incorporate what he wanted into his own style. However, Constable did not conform strictly to their art forms, he created his own.
Constable’s Works of