A Head pastel and earth on cotton paper (640g) Constable would set up at

Constable would set up at the same time each day

the patterns

The tension of overlapping foreground shapes and the contrary background treatment is accentuated by the high-key yellow color that pushes the composition forward toward the viewer

In this painting

harnessing the senses and luring them around the composition into voids and points of tension

A Head pastel and earth on cotton paper (640g) Constable would set up atMcCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aesthetic vocabulary for her compositions. Xanda McCagg is an American abstract artist who lives and works in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. A classically trained painter, she has evolved into a style that abandons figuration in search of evoking the human essence. McCagg creates her abstract compositions using a mixture of oil,