Constable Prints

John Constable in a very important British painter who helped bring landscape painting into the forefront art the art world, when previously it had lagged behind portrait and religious painting in terms of popularity of critical acceptance. This article examines Constable prints and considers why the artist's prints and paintings are so popular with art buyers today, at a time when so many other works are available of this type.

Constable paintings are best as art prints, particularly framed ones which give the original a classic look which is suitable for his style of work. Some consumers prefer canvases stretched and unframed, but this would be better on paintings by more contemporary artists, such as Kandinsky, Picasso or Malevich. As well as these tapestries and giclee prints are also available and also are well worth considering.

Constable and Turner spearhead the achievements of British artists up to the last century thanks to the legacy of their careers in inspiring further art movements which themselves now dominate the art world, including impressionism most notably. The emotional styles and love of landscape painting was new at the time of Constable, and was only later to become the norm thanks to the qualities of his paintings. Their romanticist techniques encourages further development by artists in light and colour, leading to the French artists that later developed this onwards.

A clear conclusion to draw is that Constable prints are an ideal choice for those looking to add countryside landscape paintings of Britain to their own homes, as this was the artist's true passion and his only real subject from an extensive career which firmly refused to bow to traditions. Other great artists that stand alongside Turner and Constable in British art are few and far between, but would probably include Thomas Gainsborough, George Stubbs, Joshua Reynolds and Edwin Landseer in terms of influence, ability and popularity today.