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The Peculiarly English Painter: John Constable |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Michael Rosenthal |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,966 Words, 12,255 Characters |
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While the English (as distinct from the British) are traditionally indifferent to art, they all know John Constable's Hay Wain. It has been reproduced on everything from biscuit tins and tea towels to crockery, and popularly embodies the quintessential "English" landscape. So powerful is this association that environmentalists exploited it by superimposing a freeway over a poster of the landscape, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament likewise made its point by transmogrifying the wagon into a cruise missile carrier. The place actually represented in the painting, Willie Lott's Farm at Flatford Mill, Suffolk, attracts thousands of visitors, who see an apparently unchanged house and try to imagine away the vegetation that blocks the view to Constable's distant meadows (actually not so di...
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..., his pictures cannot be said to represent any one England. If The Hay Wain is England, it must be to some and not all, for alternatives, even featuring urban imagery, have to be considered. This persistent nostalgia for only whatever existed on John Constable's canvas is not healthy, but to try to understand his pictures for what they really represent has to be a step in the right direction.
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