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5 days agoComment | Turner gets all the kudos, but it was Constable who was the truly radical painter
But where Turner the radical seems so often at the forefront of the national consciousness-celebrated in films, with a museum and a prize named after him, and his very own hall of honour in the wonderful space of Tate Britain's Clore Gallery-Constable is undercelebrated as an artist, and invisible, through familiarity as much as museum prejudice, as a painter. The only room in the country devoted to his painting, currently, lurks at the far end of the Clore Gallery, only emphasising Turner's primacy.
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