
Constable: The Dark Side at The Arc, Winchester
Shadow and light go hand in hand. You cannot have one without the other and those three little words sum up life. A new exhibition opened this week in Winchester, Constable: The Dark Side, exploring the moody side of the English Romantic landscape painter displaying over 30 works on loan from a number of institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal Academy. John Constable is well-known for his buccolic paintings and, as with the Romantic poets, his work is generally a little too sweet for my taste, So I jumped at the opportunity to see another side of Constable and talk to art historian and curator, Nicola Moorby, about this more surprising aspect of his nature and how it manifests in his work.
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