his peers. Most of Constables paintings originated as sketches. In his lifetime he remained underappreciated by the public and regularly struggled to sell his work. Constable achieved much. Weymouth Bay does hang in the National Gallery. I am writing about him. I did do research on him. Ive struggled to complete this paper two weeks after its due date. Ive struggled because Im writing a paper that could conceivably upset someone. However, this has been an assignment that has forced me to ask many questions about art. Is it art if I dont like it? Is everything we are told by scholars and academe respectively the only way to understand or appreciate art? Landscapes have been included in this course. Constable is an artist and alas I am still a student. I will still grapple with the concept of realistic painting as art. Ironically, throughout all of these various developments, Weymouth Bay will still remain in the National....
