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...Martin Roth, V&A director, said the exhibition “shows that Constable’s art, so well-loved and familiar to many of us, still delivers surprises”....
...While all this is enlightening, the V&A’s real triumph is to show how Constable absorbed yet transcended tradition to become an expressive, naturalistic painter, distilling effects of sunlight or fleeting...
...He clearly scoured the sepia-washed drawing books of the 17th-century landscape painter Claude Lorrain as much as the details of classical columns and theatrical props....
...And Vonage’s new V-Phone is a USB stick and VoiP adapter, offering cheap calls from any PC; and contact lists can be saved to a Vonage address book in advance....
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