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John Constable - Wivenhoe Park[edit]

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A pleasant sense of ease and harmony pervades this landscape of almost photographic clarity. The large areas of brilliant sunshine and cool shade, the rambling line of the fence, and the beautiful balance of trees, meadow, and river are evidence of the artist's creative synthesis of the actual site.

Reason
Rather EVsh, this painting is well kown and much admired. John Constable is an English Romantic painter, who is known principally for his landscape paintings, and sometimes mentioned as inspire and early influence the impressionism. His paintings are now considered among the most popular and valuable in British art. The NGA holds this painting as one of its highlights. National Gallery of Art, Wivenhoe Park, Highlights (citation)

... It is easy to imagine oneself on this quiet summer afternoon, under the shady tree just out of sight of the painting’s foreground, where the painter may have set up his easel. All is placid and in place—contented cows graze or snooze, fishermen drag their nets in the pond, and a kitchen garden and domestic animals occupy the space beyond the trees on the right...

Articles in which this image appears
Wivenhoe Park (painting); ‎ John Constable, Wivenhoe Park, Locus amoenus, Wivenhoe House, John Gurdon Rebow, Wivenhoe
FP category for this image
Artwork/Paintings
Claude Monet - The Beach at Sainte-Adresse - oh, same sky !!!
Creator
John Constable
  • Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 18:23, 19 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Useful. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:24, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – encapsulates all that is the quintessential English countryside; tremendous landscape by renowned artist, excellent EV and I see there is even a nice little new article on the painting as well! SagaciousPhil - Chat 16:54, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support This is a beautiful painting. I think especially good are the water and the clouds, and I like all the little unexpected details throughout the scene. CorinneSD (talk) 00:26, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - A true countryside depiction.. --The Herald 14:32, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Yann (talk) 14:15, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:John Constable - Wivenhoe Park, Essex - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:24, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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