BBC Documentaries

Constable: A Country Rebel

Directed by Spike Geilinger
TV-PG
2014 • E202    Jul 8, 2014    60m
The Haywain by John Constable is such a comfortingly familiar image of rural Britain that it is difficult to believe it was ever regarded as a revolutionary painting, but in this film, made in conjunction with a landmark exhibition at the V&A, Alastair Sooke discovers that Constable was painting in a way that was completely new and groundbreaking at the time.

Through experimentation and innovation he managed to make a sublime art from humble things and, though he struggled in his own country during his lifetime, his genius was surprisingly widely admired in France.

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Cast of Constable: A Country Rebel

  • Alastair SookeGuest Star
  • Spike GeilingerDirector

 

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