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Constable: A Country Rebel

Constable: A Country Rebel (2014)

September. 07,2014
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Constable: A Country Rebel

2014  / 0 hr 58 min

The Haywain by John Constable is such a comfortingly familiar image of rural Britain that it is difficult to believe it was ever regarded as a revolutionary painting, but in this film, made in conjunction with a landmark exhibition at the V&A, Alastair Sooke discovers that Constable was painting in a way that was completely new and groundbreaking at the time. Through experimentation and innovation, he managed to make a sublime art from humble things and, though he struggled in his own country during his lifetime, his genius was surprisingly widely admired in France.

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Director
Spike Geilinger
Cast
Alastair Sooke
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