John Constable was the first English landscape painter to take no lessons from the Dutch. He is rather indebted to the landscapes of Rubens; but his real model was Gainsborough; whose landscapes; with great trees planted in well-balanced masses on land sloping upwards towards the frame; have a rhythm often found in Rubens. Constablersquo;s originality does not lie in his choice of subjects; which frequently repeated themes beloved by Gainsborough. Nevertheless; Constable seems to belong to a new century; he ushered in a new era. The difference in his approach results both from technique and feeling. Excepting the French; Constable was the first landscape painter to consider as a primary and essential task the sketch made direct from nature at a single sitting; an idea which contains in essence the destinies of modern landscape; and perhaps of most modern painting. It is this momentary impression of all things which will be the soul of the future work. Working at leisure upon the large canvas; an artistrsquo;s aim is to enrich and complete the sketch while retaining its pristine freshness. These are the two processes to which Constable devoted himself; while discovering the exuberant abundance of life in the simplest of country places. He had the palette of a creative colourist and a technique of vivid hatchings heralding that of the French impressionists. He audaciously and frankly introduced green into painting; the green of lush meadows; the green of summer foliage; all the greens which; until then; painters had refused to see except through bluish; yellow; or more often brown spectacles. Of the great landscape painters who occupied so important a place in nineteenth-century art; Corot was probably the only one to escape the influence of Constable. All the others are more or less direct descendants of the master of East Bergholt.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful. Real deal!By Self HelperI cannot arrange myself; but luckily; publishers such as Hal Leonard and Alfred Publishing do it for me. I have a large collection of various Christmas piano books; I can find many I like. This book will surely become one of my best.I received it yesterday and have been learning it all day. The first thing you notice about the arrangements is how professional they sound. The sophisticated and fresh chords;and the phrasing. These arrangements sound similar to the ones Ive heard on various easy listening radio stations: jazzy; fresh; never boring; Hal Leonard did an outstanding job picking cream of the crop and transcribing them in one lovely book! My absolute favorites are Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Winter wonderland; but almost every song is just a gem of its own. Hope youll enjoy it as much I do.Other solos books I likedYes; of course I can recommend:Check out other books in this wonderful series of Popular Performer by Alfred Publishing; about 30 books; especially the ones arranged by Mark Hayes.Also check out other series such as Steinway Library Piano Music series (about 6 books) and Jazz Piano Solos Series published by Hal Leonard (about 35 books).In addition; check out youtube an amazing source for piano player especially search for Jazz2511 and Fabrizio Calligaris. Try search words such "piano tutorials" and you will be amazed what pops up.http://www..com/Coates-Complete-Advanced-Professional-Series/dp/076929264X/ref=pd_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8refRID=0G80BXFMYRVFEJHQK0TChttp://www..com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_23?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooksfield-keywords=jazz%20piano%20solos%20seriessprefix=jazz+piano+solos+series%2Cstripbooks%2C170http://www..com/Berlins-Piano-Solos-Irving-Berlin/dp/0793503973/ref=sr_1_18?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1431489877sr=1-18keywords=irving+berlin+solos+for+pianohttp://www..com/Roger-Williams-Contemporary-Piano-Solos/dp/0769204848/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8qid=1431490007sr=8-2keywords=roger+williams+soloshttp://www..com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooksfield-keywords=steinway%20library%20of%20piano%20musicsprefix=steinway+l%2Cstripbooks18 of 19 people found the following review helpful. excellent!By Gary JacksonI just received this book and sat down to play the arrangements. They are challenging but can be learned with practice. I am not a jazz pianist. I cant really improvise. But I love listening to good jazz piano music. I really enjoy learning arrangements that have improvised solos built into them. In other words; arrangements that make it sound like I am improvising when I play them. This book is one of the BEST in the Jazz Piano Solos series; but I also own many others and enjoy them also. If there were more than five stars Id rate this the highest possible. You wont be disapointed with this collection. HERE: 10 STARS2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I loved this!By Kaylee PI loved this!!! Such good Jazzy Christmas solos. If youre ever performing for a bunch of people in the jazz genre; go for this book! I loved the selection of songs; and the jazz music sounded really good. They sounded professional; definitely more advanced music; need to practice before you play. Also; its by Hal Leonard; anything I have played through Hal Leonard has helped me extremely with finding more advanced; beautiful pieces to play to raise the eyebrows a little bit. So expect that you will surprise a lot with this music book.