{"id":2832,"date":"2016-01-26T02:30:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/painting-the-modern-garden-monet-to-matisse-review-thrillingly-cosmic\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T16:39:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T09:39:59","slug":"painting-the-modern-garden-monet-to-matisse-review-thrillingly-cosmic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/painting-the-modern-garden-monet-to-matisse-review-thrillingly-cosmic\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse review \u2013 thrillingly cosmic"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRoyal Academy, LondonThis exhibition of psychedelic modernist pastoral art is a ravishing joy and takes Monet out of the chocolate box, revealing one of art\u2019s great humanistsI am falling. I am drowning in beauty. Perhaps this is what it feels like to teeter on the edge of a black hole. Except it\u2019s art that is pulling me into the void. Claude Monet\u2019s Agapanthus Triptych (1916-19) reaches out to embrace the viewer in a shimmering world where soft reflections move on a bankless pond; a vast mirrored universe with lilies like supernovae.This cosmic masterpiece, its three components owned by a trio of American museums and reunited here to overwhelming effect, is the final disorientating thrill in an exhibition of psychedelic modernist pastoral art that is a ravishing joy from start to finish. If you think an exhibition about gardens sounds a bit cosy or that Monet is just a pretty painter, then start at the end, with this painting that disrupts time and space as experimentally as any installation. Continue reading…
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