John Constable and J.M.W. Turner English Romantic landscape painters

By Gabriella Osztie

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RomanticismRomanticismsecond half of the 18th centurysecond half of the 18th century

complex artistic, literary and intellectual movement

revolt against aristocratic social and political norms

reaction against the scientific rationalisation of nature

emphasized intuition, imagination and feeling

embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music and literature.

naturalism and Modernity are the keywords

’le style anglais’ had something unique to offer

JOHN CONSTABLE11 JUNE 1776 – 31 MARCH

1837

Dedham Vale

JOHN CONSTABLE

Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home

JOHN CONSTABLE

’The Hay Wain’ was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1824 and created a sensation. It was awarded a gold medal.

The Hay Wain

The Leaping Horse 1825

JOHN CONSTABLE

The Cornfield 1826

Constable's usual subjects, scenes of ordinary daily life

JOHN CONSTABLE

Wivenhoe Parc, Essex, 1816

JOHN CONSTABLE

Salisbury Cathedral

Constable frequently depicted Salisbury’s famous spire

JOHN CONSTABLE

Constable took up portraiture, which he found dull work—though he executed many fine portraits.

He also painted occasional religious pictures

Maria Bicknell, 1816

JOHN CONSTABLE

Weymouth Bay, 1816

Weymouth and Brighton stimulated Constable to develop new techniques of brilliant colour and vivacious brushwork

Constable’s techniques

full-scale preliminary sketches sketches done in oils directly from the

subject in the open air broken brushstrokes, often in small

touches free and vigorous brushwork sky studies

Constable’s art (spontaneity of brushwork, feeling for nature and bold use of colour) inspired not only contemporeries like Géricault and Delacroix, but the French impressionists of the late 19th century.

Artist J.M.W.Turner 1775 - 1851. Perhaps the most famous English Romantic landscape artist. He became known as 'the painter of light'. 

Suitable vehicles for Turner's imagination were to be found in the subjects of shipwrecks, fires , natural catastrophes, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog. He was fascinated by the violent power of the sea.

Ulysses deriding Polyphemus 1829

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons,

16th October, 1834, 1835

Calais Pier

Fishermen at sea

Rain, Steam and Speed 1844

he used oils ever more transparentlythe objects are barely reconisable

Fighting Temeraire

Techniques

he used oils ever more transparently he used watercolour technique with oil

paints concentrating on the play of light on

water, the radiance of skies and fires

The Impressionists, particulrly Claude Monet, carefully studied his techniques.

his work regarded as a Romantic preface to impressionism.

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By Gabriella Osztie

1.Who was known as ’the painter of light’?

2.Who made full-scale preliminary sketches?

3.Who was fascinated by the power of sea?

4.Who completed the’sky studies’?