{"id":3205,"date":"2016-01-31T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/painting-the-modern-garden-monet-to-matisse-review-ravishing-visions\/"},"modified":"2016-01-31T15:02:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T08:02:02","slug":"painting-the-modern-garden-monet-to-matisse-review-ravishing-visions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/painting-the-modern-garden-monet-to-matisse-review-ravishing-visions\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse review \u2013 ravishing visions"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe Royal Academy is a profusion of summer borders where the art of gardening at times outgrows the art. And there is no question whose water lilies are the stars of the showRenoir painted Monet painting his garden in 1873. The two pictures hang next to each other at the start of this exhibition. With their abundance of red dahlias and creamy clouds, their blue-shuttered houses and soft summer light, each painting looks remarkably like the other \u2013 except that where Renoir portrays his friend, Monet is nose-deep in the blossoms. \u201cPerhaps I owe it to flowers,\u201d he said, \u201cthat I became a painter.\u201dThis startling statement appears in large letters in the opening gallery, as well it might, for there is no doubting whose show this is. Gardens and Monet are such a heady, coffer-filling combination that it would be extraordinary if the Royal Academy stinted on Monet\u2019s visions of the gardens he created at Argenteuil, V\u00e9theuil and Giverny, but what\u2019s marvellous is the way these paintings are planted at intervals all the way through the show until they build to a grand finale at the end \u2013 a spectacular vision of water lilies, and of modern art. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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