Constable: A Country Rebel
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.
- Year : 2014
- Country : United Kingdom
- Genre : Documentary
- Studio : BBC Four
- Keyword : countryside, artist, art, english village, suffolk, england, english masters
- Director : Spike Geilinger
- Cast : Alastair Sooke