The Hay Wain, Constable and the English countryside

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  • Опубликовано: 28 май 2018
  • John Constable, The Hay Wain (Landscape: Noon), 1821, oil on canvas, 130.2 x 185.4 cm (The National Gallery, London). Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris

Комментарии • 25

  • @ramonalinkous4733
    @ramonalinkous4733 Год назад +4

    I have this print and absolutely love it. What talent he had.❤❤❤

  • @pax462
    @pax462 Год назад +1

    Just found out about John Constable through a Windows 11 Login screen and wanted to know more about his style.
    Love the narration that these two speakers are giving. Its like half analysis and half gushing over the work haha

  • @luisortizgervasi3820
    @luisortizgervasi3820 Год назад

    What a superb explanation of the painting...¡ Thanks for it.

  • @MrPoetSpeak
    @MrPoetSpeak 4 года назад +4

    To Suffolk I Must Go
    by Ramnath Subramanian
    So real, I can feel the water jump
    As wheels traverse this stream;
    No rustic mood can ever trump
    The magic in this dream.
    I’d love to stand before this land
    Where Constable did roam;
    Where paint and brush did understand
    How nature made her home.
    And so to Suffolk I must go
    And catch a glimpse of Stour;
    And ride a wagon, get to know
    The meaning of that hour
    When light adorned with silver play
    The water’s prosody,
    And all around the evening lay
    In whispered majesty.

  • @bonnie.yarbrough
    @bonnie.yarbrough 5 лет назад +8

    Omg! I have this painting in my house lol 😂😂

  • @Lambonius
    @Lambonius 6 лет назад +8

    Can I recommend doing a video on what exactly constitutes an "idealized, Classical landscape?" I find that this is often the most confusing aspect of the landscape discussion for most of my students when we get to the early 19th Century. In the past, I've used Poussin's Landscape with St. John on Patmos as an example, but even that video (on Smart History) doesn't fully spell it out (in my opinion, and as much as I still like it.) So, please consider defining the Academic landscape in a video with multiple examples. And thank you, as always, for your excellent and important work!

  • @Sasha0927
    @Sasha0927 Год назад

    lol @ "the six footers." Way to be differentiate yourself... That should resonate especially strongly today where people seem to be hyper-fixated on that height.
    I respect him for having the courage to do what he loved the way he wished to do it. I think this is the first I've seen of Romanticism so far and I like it. "...I've often thought of pictures of them before I ever touched a pencil." Very romantic indeed. 🥰

  • @raymondbonington9355
    @raymondbonington9355 5 лет назад

    I was there yesterday

  • @Phantomrasberryblowe
    @Phantomrasberryblowe 5 лет назад

    How about some videos on John Sell-Cotman, Richard Parkes-Bonington or Francis Towne?

  • @beinghonest6064
    @beinghonest6064 4 года назад +2

    I Have This Painting!!

  • @jonathanh7509
    @jonathanh7509 6 лет назад +2

    Will you ever take a look at the Norton Simon museum? It's a museum where the most uncommon pieces are from famous artists.

    • @smarthistory-art-history
      @smarthistory-art-history  6 лет назад +5

      We try to visit the Norton Simon whenever we get to Pasadena, sometimes after a morning at the Huntington.

    • @jonathanh7509
      @jonathanh7509 6 лет назад +1

      Smarthistory. art, history, conversation. Alright! Sounds good.

  • @fredgrove4220
    @fredgrove4220 5 лет назад +1

    I've just watched a video about the UK Citizenship exam, and one of the questions was to name this painting, the examiner said it was called "The Cornfield" by Turner. I cringed.

    • @EnglishwithKris
      @EnglishwithKris 5 лет назад

      fred grove Turner , as far as I know , is a marine artist , and “The Cornfield” - is a painting by Constable ...

    • @vinnyvesty8907
      @vinnyvesty8907 5 лет назад

      @@EnglishwithKris Turner isn't a "marine" artist. He did paint marine themed pictures but did many landscape paintings as well.

  • @HeavyMetalRuinedMyLife1971a
    @HeavyMetalRuinedMyLife1971a 5 лет назад

    Yeah, it's not too bad... I just bet he knew that water always finds its level though 😉

  • @LouisHansell
    @LouisHansell 3 года назад

    He was the Andy Wyeth of his time.

  • @Waterlooplein1
    @Waterlooplein1 Год назад

    If you were to look at the bottom center, you will see the ghost of a horseman that was painted out.