Footage of the first major exhibition to explore the intertwined lives and legacies of Britain’s most revered landscape artists, JMW Turner (1775-1851) and John Constable (1776-1837).The Tate Britain exhibition marks the 250th anniversary years of the artists' births, tracing the development of their careers in parallel and exploring how they were celebrated, criticised and pitted against each other.The exhibition will be open to the public from November 27 to mid-April.
00:30These two artists have never been seen in parallel before, side by side in an exhibition of this scale, so it seemed the right moment for their anniversaries to do that, but also to tease out not only what the differences between their work were, but also what the similarities might be, and what the similarities about their aims and ambitions for landscape painting might have been.
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