From: Katharine Thayer (kthayer@pacifier.com)
Date: 01/08/03-03:25:12 PM Z
Shannon Stoney wrote:
>
> Arthur wrote:
>
> > Shannon, I think you are selling Constable way short. There's so much more
> > to his work than the thatched hut motif and what some of now think of as
> > "Kitsch." He was a brilliant, pioneering landscape painter, and in point
> > of fact he is one of the British artists credited as a precursor of the
> > Barbizon School and French Impressionism. I think you'll have to look at a
> > lot more Constables and dig a little deeper. Arthur
>
> Didn't mean to diss Constable--he's one of my favorite painters ever. I
> think I was influenced more than I even realize by the reproduction of The
> Haywain that has hung over my parents' sofa. After all, I often photograph
> country streams with a little black and white dog running along side. I
> just meant that some people may like Kinkade for the same reason they like
> Constable: the scenes are somewhat idealized versions of rural English
> country life.
>
And I think what Arthur was saying, or perhaps instead of trying to
speak for Arthur I should just speak for myself and say that Constable's
work isn't all like what you're describing here.
Katharine
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