Property News · January 30, 2016

Gardens in Art: Sow, Grow, Repeat Winter


A new exhibition of modernist paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts puts plants and gardens at the centre of the showWe’re all familiar with Monet’s waterlily paintings, but did you know he was a gardener first? This week Alys Fowler and Jane Perrone visit Painting the Modern Garden: From Monet to Mattise – a new blockbuster show at the Royal Academy of ArtsA panel of three experts join Alys and Jane in the studio to discuss the show: garden designer Sophie Walker; Eileen Hogan, who is artist in residence at the Garden Museum in London and Professor in Fine Art at the University of the Arts London, and Clare Wilsdon, author of book In the Gardens of Impressionism and Professor of the History of Western art at the University of Glasgow Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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