John Constable

Johns was a good landscape artist who believed closely in painting his own personal or preference of places. In fact he was very good at it for his time, as his paintings also represented a story you could say. For example:

This is one of his famous landscape paintings, where he presents a whole picture of farm life in the 18th century. With a deeper meaning to the painting being the growing tension between farm land owners and their workers.

This painting alone shows a peaceful day, where one of the workers is cooling off a horse next to the small farm owners house. I like how in his landscape he presented the whole image. Like the trees close up on the left with a small house, then the main “action” you could say is at the front, in a pond, and the fluffy clouds on the right. It literally paints a picture / feeling to the setting.

During 1821 there where some machines but not many, and what interest me about this painting is that there is very old fashioned, objects painting, very natural equipment. This could link John Constables painting to Romanticism, as he had also said that, “painting is another word for feeling” and feelings where the main “objective” you could say for romanticism.