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Baxters, whose son was employed with his foster-brother, Charles Clairmont, in Constable's publishing house at Edinburgh.
Biography in the DNB 2010
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Paule Constable's painterly lighting made the gloomy street scenes, the graveyard with its hooded figures in the stacked squares, and the light-flooded ballrooms seem equally menacing.
Ladies' Man Heidi Waleson 2011
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Though John Constable's art sold best in France during his lifetime, the artist has risen posthumously to the status of one of Britain's most popular landscape painters.
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Even if it can't reconcile the play's internal division, Holmes's production is utterly compelling: the silences, especially in the early scenes, are charged with emotion and Paule Constable's use of a fierce light to illuminate the eye-gouged Ian's degradation creates a series of chilling Bacon-like images.
Blasted - review Michael Billington 2010
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Starting in Essex to look at the scene of John Constable's The Hay Wain, he puts forward the case for a "vision of rural happiness in paint", of England as an unchanging place of serenity.
The weekend's TV highlights David Stubbs 2010
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But that would be the 21st century equivalent of the now bastion of establishment in landscape painting, Constable's The Hay Wain.
Amy Bernays: Our Ambassadors to the Future Amy Bernays 2011
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But that would be the 21st century equivalent of the now bastion of establishment in landscape painting, Constable's The Hay Wain.
Amy Bernays: Our Ambassadors to the Future Amy Bernays 2011
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A recent New Yorker interview claimed the work brought to mind Constable's cloud paintings and James Turrell's skylit Quaker meeting house.
Cory Arcangel: 'I'm trying to get to the idea of design's idea of the future' 2011
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But that would be the 21st century equivalent of the now bastion of establishment in landscape painting, Constable's The Hay Wain.
Amy Bernays: Our Ambassadors to the Future Amy Bernays 2011
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According to legend, when Constable and Turner had paintings hung side by side in an 1832 exhibition, Turner performed a dastardly last-minute masterstroke so that his Helvoetsluys would be judged superior to Constable's The Opening Of Waterloo Bridge.
How to dress: Red alert Jess Cartner-Morley 2010
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