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Constable's Skies - Paintings and Sketches by John Constable (Hardcover)
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Constable's Skies - Paintings and Sketches by John Constable (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
You Save R104 (21%)
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John Constable is one of the greatest painters of the English
weather. 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 in which the
landscape beneath the ever-changing sky is completely absent.
Constable kept a weather diary and was endlessly fascinated by the
sky. In a letter written in 1821 to friend John Fisher, Bishop of
Salisbury, 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, Constable's Skies captures the artist's
fascination with the sky and brings together his depictions of the
English weather from throughout his career. It will appeal to a
broad readership of museum visitors and art lovers, as well as
practising landscape painters keen to learn new skills by studying
the work of one of the most enduringly popular English artists of
all time.
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