Constable to Mondrian – Passing the Baton

What possible connection could there be between the English landscapes of John Constable and the austere abstracts of Piet Mondrian? This pioneer of abstraction, whose father and uncle were also painters, began making landscapes in the style of the Hague school which, in turn, was influenced by the French Barbizon school of painters. The French artists’ inspiration came from John Constable, an artist who admired the 17th-century Dutch masters.

In this talk James Heard will examine the visual language that connects traditional landscapes with the modernist imagery of Mondrian.