Elecy For The Landscape

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A review of the exhibiton: </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Late Constable </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>at the Royal Academy London. It explores the family background of the artist his career development working methods and technique; noted works including </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Leaping Horse Cottage in East Bergholt Rainstorm at Sea Chain Pier BrightonStonehenge </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Cornfield</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>..It includes essays by Edward Lucie- Smith (</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>John Constable 2006</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>) and Janet Barber </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(John Constable: Earth and Sky 2012) </em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'In his own lifetime Constable was constantly struggling to catch up with his great rival J.M.W. Turner whose astonishing fluency he could never match. Turner has maintained his fame but among the British at least Constable is now more intimately loved. People talk of the 'Constable country' in  Suffolk that he made his own artistically and the images he created appear on calendars kitchen  towels and place mats. You don't have to be an intellectual to love Constable's work - in fact it is probably better if you aren't.'</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Edward Lucie-Smith</em></p>