Frasi di John Constable
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John Constable è stato un pittore inglese, legato al Romanticismo.

Nacque nel Suffolk, conosciuto principalmente per i suoi paesaggi di Dedham Vale, area posta nei dintorni del suo luogo natio — attualmente conosciuta come "Constable Country" — pervasi di un'intensa passione. "Dipingerei meglio i miei luoghi", scrisse al suo amico John Fisher nel 1821, "pittura non è altra parola che sentimento [feeling]".

Le sue opere più famose comprendono Dedham Vale del 1802 e Il carro da fieno del 1821. Sebbene i suoi dipinti siano adesso tra i più popolari e quotati dell'arte britannica, non ebbe mai grande successo economico e non divenne membro dell'establishment fino a che non fu eletto alla Royal Academy all'età di 52 anni. Vendette più dipinti in Francia che nella sua nativa Inghilterra.

✵ 11. Giugno 1776 – 31. Marzo 1837
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John Constable frasi celebri

“Dovrei rispettare me stesso per i miei amici, e i miei bambini. È tempo, a 56 anni, di iniziare, come minimo, a conoscere se stessi, — ed io faccio conoscere ciò che non sono, e il tuo rispetto mi ha ridestato almeno a credere nella possibilità che potrei fare ancora qualche impressione con la mia "luce" — le mie "rugiade" — le mie "brezze"”

i miei fiori e le freschezze, — nessuna di queste qualità è stata ancora perfezionata sulle tele di nessun pittore al mondo.
Origine: Lettera a C.R. Leslie (marzo 1833), The Letters of John Constable, R.A. to C. R. Leslie, R.A. 1826-1837 (Constable & Co., 1931), p. 104.

“Non mi considero al lavoro senza prima trovarmi davanti a una tela di sei piedi.”

Origine: Lettera al Rev. John Fisher (23 ottobre 1821) di John Constable's Correspondence, ed. R.B. Beckett, (Ipswich, Suffolk Records Society, 1962-1970), part 6, pp. 76-78.

“La pittura è una scienza e andrebbe perseguita come un'indagine secondo le leggi della natura. Perché, dunque, non potrebbe un paesaggio essere considerato come una branca della filosofia della natura, i cui dipinti non sono altro che esperimenti?”

Origine: "The History of Landscape Painting," quarta lettura, Royal Institution (1836-06-16), di John Constable's Discourses, ed. R.B. Beckett, (Ipswich, Suffolk Records Society, 1970), p. 69.

Frasi sulla pittura di John Constable

“Uno schizzo (di una pittura) servirà solo ad esprimere uno stato mentale e non a bere sempre più — in uno schizzo non c'è nient'altro che uno stato mentale — di come si era in quel tempo.”

Origine: Lettera al Rev. John Fisher (02 novembre 1823), di John Constable's Correspondence, ed. R.B. Beckett, (Ipswich, Suffolk Records Society, 1962-1970), part 6, pp. 142-143.

John Constable Frasi e Citazioni

“Le mie tele mi calmano facendomi dimenticare le scene di inquietudine e follia — e peggio — la scena che mi circonda. Ogni sprazzo di sole è per me alla fine nell'arte appassito. Perciò ci si può chiedere perché dipingo sempre tempeste. "Tempesta sopra tempesta sovrasta"”

ancora l'"oscurità" è maestosa.
Origine: Lettera a C.R. Leslie (1834), John Constable's Correspondence, ed. R.B. Beckett, (Ipswich, Suffolk Records Society, 1962-1970), vol. 3, p. 122; anche citata da Hugh Honour, Romanticism (Westview Press, 1979, ISBN 0-064-30089-7), ch. 3, p. 91.

“Il mondo è vasto; non ci sono due giorni uguali, neanche due ore; nemmeno ci furono mai due foglie di albero simili fin dal tempo dalla creazione del mondo.”

Origine: C. R. Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Composed Chiefly of His Letters (1843) (Phaidon, London, 1951) p. 273.

John Constable: Frasi in inglese

“The landscapes of Ruysdael present the greatest possible contrast to those of Claude, showing how powerfully, from the most opposite directions, genius may command our homage. In Claude's pictures, with scarcely an exception, the sun ever shines. Ruysdael, on the contrary, delighted in, and has made delightful to our eyes, those solemn days, peculiar to his country and to ours, when without storm, large rolling clouds scarcely permit a ray of sunlight to break the shades of the forest.”

Quote from 'The History of Landscape Painting,' third lecture, Royal Institution (9 June 1836), from notes taken by C.R. Leslie; as quoted in: 'A brief history of weather in European landscape art', John E. Thornes, in Weather Volume 55, Issue 10 Oct. 2000, p. 366-67
1830s, his lectures History of Landscape Painting (1836)

“I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much… imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.”

Letter to John Dunthorne, 1801; as quoted in Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable (Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1993), p. 510
1800s - 1810s

“Sept. 6th, 1822, looking S. E. – 12 to 1 o'clock, fresh and bright, between showers – much the look of rain all the morning, but very fine and grand all the afternoon and evening.”

Constable's inscription at the back of a cloud study, 6 September 1822, as quoted in Constable, Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Tate Gallery Publications, London 1993, p. 233
1820s

“A self-taught painter is one taught by a very ignorant person.”

Quoted in The Quarterly Review vol. 119 (1866), p. 292.
posthumous, undated

“It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.”

Letter to a client, Mr Carpenter (23 July 1828), as quoted in Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable (Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1993), p. 291
1820s

“I am most anxious to get into my London painting-room, for I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas. I have done a good deal of skying for I am determined to conquer all difficulties, and that among the rest.”

Quote from John Constable's letter to Rev. John Fisher (23 October 1821), as quoted in Richard Friedenthal, Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock (Thames and Hudson, London, 1963), p. 41
1820s

“He seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent, and so airy.”

Letter to his brother George, 1836, referring to J M W Turner
1830s

“We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the contrary — yet it must be bright, clear, alive fresh, and all the front seen.”

Letter to David Lucas (15 February 1836), on the mezzo print of the 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows'; as quoted in Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable (Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1993), p. 37
1830s

“But You know, Landscape is my mistress — 't is to her that I look for fame — and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.”

Letter to his future wife, Maria Bicknell (22 September 1812), as quoted in Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable (Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1993), p. 23
1800s - 1810s

“Painting is a science and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not a landscape be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but experiments?”

Quote from 'The History of Landscape Painting,' fourth lecture, Royal Institution (16 June 1836), from John Constable's Discourses, ed. R.B. Beckett, (Ipswich, Suffolk Records Society, 1970), p. 69.
1830s, his lectures History of Landscape Painting (1836)

“No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.”

Quote from John Constable's letter to Rev. John Fisher 1825
1820s

“It is so ambiguous as to be scarcely intelligible in some parts (and those the principal), yet as a whole, it is novel and affecting.”

Quote from Constable's letter to his future wife Maria Bicknell, 1812; as quoted in: 'A brief history of weather in European landscape art', John E. Thornes, in Weather Volume 55, Issue 10 Oct. 2000, p. 368
Constable wrote his love about Turner's landscape-painting 'Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps' (Tate Gallery, No. 490); The storm effects in this painting are typical of many of Turner's skies
1800s - 1810s

“Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes… almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.”

As quoted in Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable (Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1993), p. 512
posthumous, undated

“When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.”

As quoted in Richard Friedenthal, Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock (Thames and Hudson, London, 1963), p. 40
1800s - 1810s

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