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SUMMARY:Susan Owens Constable's Year: An Artist in Changing Seasons
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DESCRIPTION:Shaped by the cycle of the natural world\, a fresh look at the life and work of John Constable as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth.\n\nAs 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.\n\nWhether 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 intimately knew the laneways\, ploughs and millponds he painted\, and who understood the countryside as a place of both labour and natural phenomena.\n\nThough today he is often considered a traditional artist\, in truth John Constable was a radical. His sketchbooks and paintings reject second-hand\, slip-shod versions of nature\, instead subjecting the land\, its people and industry to intense scrutiny\; developing a new kind of painting to fit the landscape he saw with his farmer’s eye and felt beneath the soles of his boots.\n\nIn conversation with Nicola Upson\n\n[gallery ids="15002\,15003"]
LOCATION:Harvest House\, Cobbold Road\, FELIXSTOWE\, IP11 7SP\, United Kingdom
URL:https://felixstowebookfestival.co.uk/events/susan-owens-constables-year-an-artist-in-changing-seasons
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