The Academicians' Room Members – VIP Breakfast & Private View of Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Friday 26 February 2016 8.30 - 10am
The Academicians’ Room and the Main Galleries, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts
Free, booking required. The Academicians' Room members only.
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Members of the Academicians' Room are invited to enjoy a light breakfast and early morning viewing of the exhibition.
Join us in the Academicians' Room for a light breakfast and early morning viewing of Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse. Using the work of Monet as a starting point, this landmark exhibition examines the role gardens played in the evolution of art from the early 1860s through to the 1920s.
Trace the emergence of the modern garden in its many forms and glories as we take you through a period of great social change and innovation in the arts. Discover the paintings of some of the most important Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Avant-Garde artists of the early twentieth century as they explore this theme.
Monet, arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, once said he owed his painting “to flowers”. But Monet was far from alone in his fascination with the horticultural world, which is why we will also be bringing you masterpieces by Renoir, Cezanne, Pissarro, Manet, Sargent, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Matisse, Klimt and Klee.
For these artists and others, the garden gave them the freedom to break new ground and explore the ever-changing world around them. Highlights include a remarkable selection of works by Monet, including the monumental Agapanthus Triptych, reunited specifically for the exhibition, Renoir’s Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil and Kandinsky’s Murnau The Garden II.
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