Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Vibrant exhibition at the Royal Academy looking at the relationship between modern art
and gardens.
Telegraph
Evening Standard
I liked the
variety of themes and ways of presenting the work in this exhibition however
after a while it all became a bit too much! It was just too big a show on one
topic. The central room which looked at international gardens became too chocolate boxlike and I felt like
I was drowning in orange chocolate truffles! The stories of each of the gardens
was fascinating but even for me there were too many images
There was a great
sense of visual relief when you hit the wittily titled Avant-Garden room and
found works by Van Gogh, Kandinsky and got a different view of the world.
However the star
of the show was the Monet lilies triptych brought back together from three
galleries and shown in the lovely round room, a perfect end to the show. I
loved the fact there was no sense of the bank of the pool and they become
pictures of infinity.
Closes on 20
April 2016.
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