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Edge of a Wood - John Constable

Title: Edge of a Wood

Artist: John Constable (1776 - 1837)

Date: 1816

On Display at The Art Gallery of Ontario

This painting is called Edge of a Wood and was painted by John Constable in 1816. John Constable was known to be a landscape painter and his painting usually consisted of Suffolk countryside, where he had grown up. This painting features an individual (gender not specified) and two donkeys in the foreground that are positioned on the left side of the Constable’s painting. But the three individuals in this painting are overshadowed by the woods…

John Constable, Wivenhoe Park, Essex (1816)

Constable's Wivenhoe Park painting

John Constable painted Wivenhoe Park in 1816. In Art and Illusion, E. H. Gombrich sees this painting as the apogée of changes to art that were implemented in the Renaissance (e.g., the adoption of perspective and the illusion of three-dimenionality). As he writes,

Constable’s painting of Wivenhoe Park looks so natural and obvious that we are inclined to overlook its daring and its success.  We accept it as simply a faithful record of what the artist actually saw in front of him—”a mere transcript of nature,” as paintings of…

Crossing Lake Aylmer (3hs. a.m.)

This image portrays an icescape with distant mountains. The Arctic sun is low on the horizon, and smoke-like clouds extend in a widening mass from the far right of the image to the upper left corner. A long line of men with dogsleds attempt to go around a crevasse in the ice that extends from the lower right to the upper left. Two men wait by a sled (packed with a chest, kettle, basket, and blanket), one with his head in his hands. There is a sizeable hole in the ice to their immediate right.3This image portrays an icescape with distant mountains. The Arctic sun is low on the horizon, and…
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