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TITLE: Constable & Turner - ENGLISH ROMANTIC PAINTERS

DESCRIPTION: CONSTABLE: 1776-1837. Inspired by Claude Lorraine. Stable personality. Happy marriage. Inspired Delacroix with colors in Hay Wain. Landscape/cloud painter. Dramatic (romantic) skies, devoted to nature / naturalism. Invented mass of paint dabs to create sun reflecting off of forms. Predated impressionism by 60 yrs.TURNER: 1775-1851. Leading genius of British art. Early works realistic, later works abstract. Predated Abstractionism by 100 yrs. Opposite of Constable, Turner had disturbed life. Wealthy. Traveller. Not tied down like Constable. Invented technique for painting intense light with paint washes of dramatic color. "Theatrical" Romantic landscape paintings (turbulence,violence, intense). Turner inspired Monet.