Saturday, September 20, 2008

Constable country ...

... Suffolk Saunter. (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke.)

Give me Constable over just about any of the French Impressionists (the exception would be Sisley - and he was English.)

2 comments:

  1. Hmm. I'll take Camille Pissarro, but your point about Constable's glories is still taken.

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  2. Although I tend towards Hopper, Turner, Brueghel, Klimt, Velasquez, and Canada's Tom Thomson or Emily Carr . . . of this era, I'd go with Claude Monet, especially such as "San Giorgio Maggiore by Twilight," "Le Pont Japonais à Giverny," and some of the seascapes (perhaps because I spent a year in Villefranche-sur-mer in the nineties; but, mostly because of the extraordinary slants of light). Ah, Matisse; Oh, Cézanne, eh? (And, guilty pleasure? Jack Vettriano.)

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