Ruskin Has It In For Turner
Ruskin Has It In For Turner Unlike Turner, Constable has to wait years before he is elected to the Royal Academy, 52 years old to be precise. His critics view him as too parochial, only painting his local Sussex landscapes and villages compared to Turner who addresses historical events, technological advances and foreign climes . This doesn't stop Constable describing Turner's work as “ just steam and light” and Turner to retaliate. "I am the great lion of the day Family loving Constable ( married to a Vicar's daughter and seven children) becomes a teeny bit despondent now and then with a lack of English fans telling his biographer a chap named Varley he is no artist’. . Art critic Ruskin “puts the boot" in too, saying Constable could not draw and his work lacks the feeling and accuracy of the natural world, Constable misses “the majesty of storm and the loveliness of calm weather” for Ruskin calling his work a “ great coat of weather “