John Constable: 226 Plates (Colour Plates)
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John Constable: 226 Plates (Colour Plates) Details
This Art Book with Foreword by Maria Peitcheva contains 226 selected color plates of drawings and paintings from John Constable. John Constable was English painter, ranked with Turner as one of the greatest British landscape artists. Constable worked extensively in the open air, drawing and sketching, but his finished pictures were produced in the studio. Unlike many of his contemporaries Constable painted from nature rather than thinking up a composition in his minds eye prior to beginning a piece. He was excited by the prospect of ever changing nature and the way that no view ever looked the same from one day to the next. In England Constable had no real successor and the many imitators (who included his son Lionel) turned rather to the formal compositions than to the more direct sketches. In France, however, he was a major influence on Romantic painters such as Delacroix, on the members of the Barbizon School, and ultimately on the Impressionists.
Reviews
This Review is for the print edition. The images may appear excellent in the Kindle edition, but the quality and size of the the plates in the print edition are very poor. This book was printed to order and does not work well in this format. I would never have purchased any art book like this deliberately. Art books require more attention than was given to this printed version which shouldn't even be sold as it will inevitably disappoint someone who is looking for quality images of the artist's work. This is the same review I wrote for John Constable:126 Master Drawings in the print edition.
