Dell at Helmingham Park

Posted by Maverick ~ on December 2, 2017
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Dell at Helmingham Park
John Constable

John Constable’s personal vision and immediate encounters with nature shaped his landscape paintings. This approach links him to a central tenant of Romanticism. While earlier British artists aspired to represent an idealized view of an imagined landscape, Constable strove to capture the local scenery of his native Suffolk, England.
Constable's intimate vision, as exemplified by this work, was characteristic of the newly intensified attitude toward nature adopted by the Romantic movement. He first visited this dell in 1800, when he wrote to a friend, "Here I am quite alone among the oaks and solitude of Helmingham Park… there are abundance of fine trees of all sorts." He visited once more in 1814, but this is a late work of memory. Constable enhances the rustic atmosphere by including a foreground cow and, in the distance, a stag and red deer. His technique is loose and free, making his trees appear as though they are sighing and swaying in the wind.

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13 comments on “Dell at Helmingham Park”

  4. He also made use of leading lines, framing, and rule of thirds. The color could almost be a filter from a smartphone app. One can learn photo techniques from paintings as well as other photos they, the techniques, were developed long before photography.

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