London, Jan 27 (Notimex) .- A new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts (Royal Academy of Arts) for the first time explores the relationship between the gardens and the great masters of Impressionism twentieth century, Monet taking as a starting point.
“The garden in modern painting: From Monet to Matisse” houses the grand Triptych series Agapanthus Lilies (Monet, 1916-1919) for the first time is presented as a single piece in the UK
The curator of the exhibition, Ann Dumas, told Notimex that the leaflets from three museums in the United States and “perhaps the only time they were shown together was in Paris in 1950″.
The exhibition runs from 1860-1920, a period of rapid social change and innovation in the arts, which included the development of impressionism, post-impressionism and the avant-garde of the early twentieth century.
The exhibition shows that many of these artists were also lovers of horticulture, growing their own gardens and spending time in what became a new place for recreation.
One of the emblematic paintings of the exhibition is “Woman in the Garden” (Monet, 1867) and “Monet Painting in his Garden in Argenteuil” (Renoir, 1867), reflecting the symbiosis between the gardens and artists.
In the late nineteenth century, the idea begins to emerge from the gardens as a private and intimate sanctuary perfectly ornate landscapes from Monet to the unkempt gardens and Bonnard and Vuillard, French contemporary painter friends
A complete room offers a retrospective of the early years of Monet at Giverny, a village northwest of Paris, where the artist was given the task of redesigning its own garden and pond create a hybrid species of red lilies and roses .
In an effort to portray perfectly the water lilies with the changing light of day, Monet destroyed several canvases of the series until Water Lilies, once satisfied with his work-48 paintings were exhibited in Paris in 1909 .
The exhibition reflects how the famous garden at Giverny was a source of inspiration for Monet from his beginnings as a painter until his death in 1926.
The famous paintings of water lilies and weeping willows Monet lie not far from the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky, Emil Nolde, Gustav Klimt and Pierre Bonnard.
The exhibition, one of the most anticipated in the cultural calendar of the United Kingdom, presents 120 paintings from public and private institutions around the world, of which 35 belong to Monet.
“We did not want to do an exhibition dedicated solely to Monet, because they have done in the past, but wanted to intentionally seek a historical connection between artists and gardening,” said the curator.
The exhibition immerses visitors to the intimate space of dream gardens, the bright colors of Kandinsky, through the melancholic Spanish Santiago Rusiñol Gardens.
The exhibition presented thematically also includes other international artists such as Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro and Max Liebermann, but none so well known or as prolific as Claude Monet.
“Perhaps I owe the flowers that I became a painter,” once wrote Monet, who portrayed as one of the gardens as a place of refuge and healing.
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