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Il paesaggio è la mia amante
«Il paesaggio è la mia amante.»
Insieme al suo coetaneo Turner è uno dei piu' importanti paesaggisti di primo ottocento: le campagne del Suffolk rappresentaranno l'unica e autentica fonte di isiprazione di molti suoi capolavori, come Dedham Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821.
Nato nella contea del Suffol la natura e le valli del Suffolk rappresnteranno furono la sua fonte d'ispirazione principale per le sue opere è conosciuto soprattutto per i suoi paesaggi
Oggi è uno dei dei più popolari e quotati pittori inglesi, ma durante la sua vita non ebbe molta fortuna: divenne membro della Royal Academy solo a 52 anni e i suoi dipinti riscossero molto piu' successo in Francia che nella sua terra natale.
Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling".[1]
His most famous paintings include Dedham Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821. Although his paintings are now among the most popular and valuable in British art, he was never financially successful and did not become a member of the establishment until he was elected to the Royal Academy at the age of 52. He sold more paintings in France than in his native England. Constable once wrote in a letter to Leslie, "My limited and abstracted art is to be found under every hedge, and in every lane, and therefore nobody thinks it worth picking up".[25] He could never have imagined how influential his honest techniques would turn out to be.
Constable's art inspired not only contemporaries like Géricault and Delacroix, but the Barbizon School, and the French impressionists of the late nineteenth century. http://web.dsc.unibo.it/~cerioni/ig/index.html