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Constable: The Leaping Horse
25 minutes
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Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Availability:
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Order number: 356
John Constable was, with Turner, the foremost English landscape painter of the nineteenth century; The Haywain is his most famous picture. Of the green watermeadows and windswept skies of Suffolk he remarked, `These scenes made me a painter.' Here we analyze his Leaping Horse in terms of landscape genre painting as a whole, and look at the skills and techniques available to the artist. We also consider the constraints and possibilities with which the landscape painter worked, including the current market in art and the ideas of Constable's contemporaries about how the countryside could be represented.
John Constable The Haywain
Credits -
Director
Charles Cooper
Presenter
Briony Fer
Open University/BBC
