EOS: Turner & Constable (PG)

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies.

J.M.W Turner and John Constable are routinely regarded as the greatest English landscape painters and among the greatest painters in art history’s long and complicated narrative. Born a year apart and both alumni of the Royal Academy schools in London, each was keenly aware of what the other was doing, and a fierce rivalry emerged.

Sometimes, they sought the same collectors and painted the same subjects. Turner’s blazing sunsets and sublime scenes from his travels and Constable’s idealised depictions of beloved places from home whipped the public of the time into a frenzy of enthusiasm. Constable represents the very best of the old school of realism and pastoral nostalgia; Turner, an exciting new way of depicting emotion and dreamlike impressions. Critics compared their starkly different styles to a clash of ‘fire and water’. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these greats side-by-side, as they so often were in life, on the big screen for the first time. Don’t miss.