John Constable in artist quotes on landscape painting & his life; free resource, English art history

John Constable quotes - the famous English artist wrote about landscape-painting & his artistic life in England - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in English art history

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John Constable was one of the earliest European artists who painted landscape in open air in England; he beccame during his life famous in England and in France. He frequently did his painting art on paper, in oil paint. His definite and larger oil-paintings Constable painted later in his studio in London - after his oil sketches. He created his landscape art in the beginning of the Romanticism area in England.

Constable wrote in many letters about his traveling through the English country, searching for good landscape locations for his motives, to paint. He described also his self-invented new techniques and his dedicated attitude to painting, surrounded by Nature and the country-land.
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Some selected artist-quotes of famous English landscape artist John Constable - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Here I am quite alone amongst the Oaks and solitudes of Helmingham Park. I have taken quiet possession of the parsonage finding it quite empty… .There are abundance of fine trees of all sort; through the place upon the whole affords good objects [rather] than fine scenery… …I have made one of two… drawing that may be useful.’ - quote of Constable in his letter in 1800, to John Dunthorne

• ’I have been living a hermit-life, though always with my pencil in my hand… .How much real delight have I had with the study of landscape this summer’ - Constable’s quote, in his letter to his friend Rev. John Fisher, July 1812

• ’Painting is but another word for feeling.’ - Constable’s quote from his letter to Rev. John Fisher, Oct 1821

• ’…this sketch observed the Moon easing - very beautifully… .(in the) due East over the - heavy clouds from which the late showers - had fallen…’ - Constable’s inscription - on the back of his oil-sketch ‘Hampstead Heath, Sun setting over Harrow’, Sept. 1821
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  selection of free art-resources on the English famous artist John Constable:

  • extended biographical notes of John Constable, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constable
  • artist-quotes of ànd about John Constable, on Wiki-quote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Constable
  • images of his famous landscape painting art, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Constable
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]