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Constables Year - Susan Owens
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Constables Year
Type : Books
SKU: VV1649703
ISBN: 9780500028896
Pages: 224
Format: 241 x 161 x 24
Cover: Hardback
Year: 2026
Publisher: Thames & Hudson (Thames & Hudson)
Your Price: $232.36
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Краткая аннотация:
As exhilarating as a lungful of oxygen: that’s how some of his contemporaries felt about John Constable’s paintings. Others, though, were baffled by his uncompromisingly fresh and realistic treatment of the natural world. Susan Owens follows Constable through the seasons, tracing the rhythms and resonances of the artist’s year to offer a vivid, unconventional perspective on this beloved figure. Whether in London in May, preparing pictures for exhibition and longing for the Suffolk spring, or painting boat-builders and waiting to be married in a particularly gloomy September, Constable’s life and work were unusually shaped by the yearly cycles of weather and agriculture, as well as by the often competing demands of the art world. Raised in Suffolk and trained to manage his father's land, his rural background had an enduring impact on his painting. His was the approach of one who knew the laneways, ploughs and millponds he painted intimately, and who understood the countryside as a plac |
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