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News & ArtsTuesday, February 9, 2010
Visual Art Idea for a Road Trip
Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:00 PM
By comparing bushes and trees, a scholar figured out the precise location of John Constable's 1814-15 painting The Stour Valley.
It will be more of a challenge to pin down the barren real-life venues of Michael Brophy's South of Twenty series, showing this month at G. Gibson. They're from the southeast corner of Oregon, on the eastern side of the Cascades.
But surely somebody's up to the task.
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Interesting that they claim to have found the "exact spot" where Constable painted the picture, even as they admit that he liked to move landscape features around to get the effect he wanted. In other words, his paintings do not represent real places but places of the imagination. Another failure in comprehension from the blind literalists.
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