
Constable: A Country Rebel
Directed by Spike Geilinger2014 58mDocumentary
7.9
John Constable is the Nation's favourite landscape painter. From The Haywain to The White Horse his pictures of rural life seem comforting, traditional and perhaps just a bit... boring. Or, as art critic and presenter, Alastair Sooke says: 'he screams "no sex please we're British!"' So why is the artist who launched a thousand dish cloths the original country rebel?