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SlideshowA Boat passing a Lock
In this painting, a boat waits to enter a lock before moving upstream as threatening rainclouds pass overhead. John Constable captures a momentary weather condition, which animates the painting and dramatises the figure of the lock keeper with his red jacket silhouetted against the horizon. Constable was fascinated by cloud formations and the play of light on the landscape.The central figure, a man in a red waistcoat holding a large crowbar, is working the mechanism which will open the lower gate and let the water rush in from the lock into the river. Constable wrote to his friend a few years before making this work, “The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things…”
John Constable Reeve (1929 – 2020)
Esplora i sereni paesaggi e gli studi architettonici di John Constable Reeve (1929-2020). Artista britannico noto per scene evocative di Oxford, dell'Inghilterra rurale e temi biblici.
Royal Academy of Arts (Londra, Regno Unito)
Scopri la Royal Academy of Arts: un luogo storico londinese che celebra l'arte britannica dal XVIII secolo! Ammira mostre d'arte, conferenze stimolanti e una vivace comunità che promuove la creatività attraverso i secoli.
Dettagli sull'opera
- Titolo: A Boat passing a Lock
- Artista: John Constable Reeve
- Anno: 1826
- Formato: Landscape
- Stato del copyright: Protetti da copyright
- Dove vederlo: Royal Academy of Arts
- Palette colori: Earthy
- Luminosità percepita: shadow
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