"In the 250th anniversary year of the artist's birth, the author Susan Owens analyses how John Constable's life and work were shaped by the yearly cycles of weather and agriculture. " Constable's Year shows how nature and the changing seasons mattered dearly to Constable and made his approach to painting radical for his day," says a publisher's statement. Owens draws a "multidimensional portrait""
"Barnett left behind only 118 finished paintings, such as Voice of Fire (1967), six sculptures, and 83 drawings. But the artist was determined to make his mark in other ways, for instance as a teacher and as a candidate for mayor of New York. Newman's analysis also looks at how Barnett Newman's Jewish identity shaped his life and art."
Constable's Year analyzes how John Constable's life and work were shaped by yearly cycles of weather and agriculture, arguing that nature and changing seasons influenced a radical approach to painting. The book presents biographical, meteorological and geographical perspectives and discusses works such as Landscape with a Double Rainbow (1812). A new biography of Barnett Newman draws on interviews, oral histories and previously unseen correspondence, outlines a limited painted output alongside sculptures and drawings, and examines roles as teacher and political candidate and the influence of Jewish identity on life and art. Subject-Object Art Theory presents ideas by Pyotr Pavlensky; Pavlensky gained notoriety for extreme performances, including nailing his scrotum to Red Square in 2013 and setting fire to a Bank of France entrance in Paris in late 2017.
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