Constable: A Country Rebel

09/07/2014

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0hr 58min

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Documentary

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Alastair Sooke

    Director

  • Spike Geilinger

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BBC Four

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English