Cloud Study
In an age when landscape painting was considered an inferior art form, Constable was ahead of his time. Ironically, although his paintings are imbued with a love of the English landscape, particularly the scenery around his native Suffolk, he found greater success in France than in England. His scientific approach to nature was greatly admired by the French Impressionists of the later part of the 19th century. Wishing to record exactly what he saw, Constable often painted out of doors. He considered the sky to be the âkey noteâ in a landscape and executed many rapid sketches, such as this Cloud study, capturing the English weather in all its moods.
