Love not landscape was the making of Constable ...John Constable and Maria Bicknell might have been in love but their marriage was a most unlikely prospect. Constable was a penniless painter who would not sacrifice his art for anything, while Maria's family frowned on such a penurious union. For seven long years the couple were forced to correspond and meet clandestinely. But it was during this period of longing that Constable developed as a painter. And by the time they'd overcome all obstacles to their marriage, he was on the verge of being recognised as a genius. Martin Gayford brings alive the time of Jane Austen in telling the tremendous story of Constable's formative years, as well as this love affair's tragic conclusion which haunted the artist's final paintings.

Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter

Arts & Photography

Martin Gayford

History & Criticism

Penguin??Books

Rachel Howard

et.al.

Elderton, L (Editor)

Blain|Southern

A leading figure in twentieth-century British art, Patrick Heron has played a major role in the development of post-war abstract art. However, much of his work also reflects the influence of the extraordinary light, colour, shapes and textures to be found in the garden and landscape surrounding his house in Cornwall. He has vigorously pursued the ideal of an art of pure visual sensation. As far back as 1962 he explicitly claimed that 'colour is both the subject and the means, the form and the content, the image and the meaning, in my painting today'. In this catalogue, published to accompany the major retrospective at the Tate Gallery, over seventy paintings by the artist are reproduced as colour plates. These works range from small oils to enormous canvases. Selected by David Sylvester, the curator of the exhibition, they trace the developments in Heron's style over sixty years.

Patrick Heron

A.S.Byatt

Tate Gallery Pubn

The Best of Jazz (The Essential CD Guides)
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The Best of Jazz : The Essential Guide

Carlton

Daphne Todd (Studio Publications)

Messum's

A Bigger Message Conversations With David Hockney/Chinese Edition

Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House

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