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Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature Works from the Tate Collection: Laing Art Gallery
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In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, artists including JMW Turner and John Constable took their canvases outdoors and began drawing and painting landscapes in the open air, instead of in their studios.
Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature brings together more than 60 works by Turner, Constable and their contemporaries, showing the different techniques each artist used to capture views of the landscapes of the time, both in Britain and abroad.
Oil sketches, watercolours and finished oil paintings from the Tate collection will be on show, showing picturesque scenes, rural nature, cities, rivers and coasts.
The practice of painting in the open air was new, daring and different at the time and the exhibition uses works by artistic rivals Turner and Constable, as well as George Stubbs, John Sell Cotman, John Crome and Francis Danby, among others, to show the differences and similarities between each artists methods.
The practice and techniques of sketching are explored and sometimes surprising connections are made between the artists involved.
Admission to Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature is £7. Family tickets and concessions are available. Tickets are available from the Laing Art Gallery or online from www.laingartgallery.org.uk (online tickets are subject to a 95p booking fee).
Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature is on show at the Laing Art Gallery from 1 March 2014 until 29 June 2014.
The exhibition is curated by Emeritus Professor Michael Rosenthal of the University of Warwick, one of the worlds foremost experts on the art of this period, Anne Lyles who is a leading authority on the art of John Constable and curated Constable: The Great Landscapes at Tate Britain in 2006 and Dr Steven Parissien Director of Compton Verney and editor of the accompanying illustrated book, produced by Tate Publishing.
Exhibition organised by Compton Verney.
