Few artists of his generation were more rigorous in observing nature, yet Cézanne was less interested in
recording fleeting effects than in conveying the underlying rhythms and structures of the landscape.
In the 1830s, Constable achieved more expressiveness in his work; he aimed less at the careful naturalistic depiction of a scene and more at an immediate
record of the light and atmosphere of the moment and their
fleeting effect on the sky, foliage, and water.