Art

t. Here the trees are green and the corn stands high in the field , waiting for the harvest. This is a typical view of the English rural landscape from the nineteenth century. The thirsty shepherd- boy drinks from the stream, while the ass licks moisture from the leaves. This boy is doing his job, but he hasnt noticed that the gate to the cornfield is broken, making a gap in the fence, may be sheep will escape into the field and trample the crops. The sheepdog has noticed and will bark to attract the shepherd-boys attention and the farmer will close the gate.
Constable couldnt paint without loving and he passionately loved the English landscape. He created for himself a direct and intense technique of expression. This painters proud desire to be alone with Nature is certainly the most precious thing that Constable brought into modern art. The sky for the painter was not only an arrangement of colours; it was alive with the life which exposed that of the earth. At the end of his career he developed more lyrical style, using thick layers of paint to create his effects.
Constables works were forgotten until 1888 when his daughter bequeathed a large number of her fathers paintings to the nation.

William Hogarth (1697-1764)
W. Hogarth is one of the greatest English painters of the 18th century. In his pictures he reflected social life and in many of them the beauty of his painting was accompanied by satire. The "Marriage-a-la-Mode", "The Election Entertainment" were painted to show the life very satirically. In 1742 he painted "The Graham Children" where he brilliantly used his delicate colours to show the charm of childhood.
He made his name as an artist painting "conversation pieces". These little pictur