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John Constable Exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum
Tina Engstrom
This major exhibition titled Constable: The Making of a Master will reassess John Constable's influences, techniques and legacy to offer a new interpretation of one of Britian's best-loved artist. Discover how great works are created as Constable's most famous masterpieces are united with revoluntary oil sketches: expressive evocations of land, sea and sky that allowed him to transfer the freshness of the outdoors into his exhibition paintings.
For the first time, John Constable will be presented alongside the old masters of classical landscape whose formal values he studiously assimilated. By combining the authority of their compositional ideas with a breathtakingly naturalistic vision that was entirely his own, Constable would ultimately transform the genre of landscape painting, and in the process shape the enduring popular image of the English countryside.
The exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum is on from 20 September 2014 – 11 January 2015.
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Ground, 1823, oil on canvas. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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The Rosetta Stone at London's British Museum – Uncovering the Secrets of Ancient Egypt
One of the most popular items in the British Museum in London is the Rosetta Stone. It is rather unremarkable. It is the height of a child, cracked at the edges, lacking colour, and with inscriptions on only one side. There is little beauty in it, and the inscriptions are boring decrees - yet it is maybe one of the most famous stones in the world. For over 20 years it became the focus of a race to crack a code of strange pictures and shapes and in doing so uncover the life of Ancient Egypt.
Beatrix Potter's London Display at Victoria & Albert Museum
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