An Introduction to Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Free Talk
Monday 1 February 2016 1 - 2pm
The Reynolds Room, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts
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Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
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Exhibition curator Ann Dumas examines the different ways that artists ranging from Claude Monet to Henri Matisse painted the garden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I perhaps owe it to flowers that I became a painter.
– Claude Monet
Mounting enthusiasm for gardening for personal pleasure, and the rise of the artist gardener became an international phenomenon in the second half of the 19th century. As an introduction to Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, curator Ann Dumas examines Claude Monet as the artist and gardener par excellence alongside his many contemporaries who shared his fascination with the subject. As well as the Impressionists, this includes artists such as John Singer Sargent, Max Liebermann and Joaquín Sorolla who were working in a more traditional, naturalist style, and avant-garde artists from Van Gogh to Matisse who experimented with brilliant colour and radical new techniques.
Doors open at 12.30pm, no admittance will be granted for latecomers after 1pm. If you do not arrive before 1pm, your ticket will be released at that time to those waiting for returned tickets.