Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

Vibrant exhibition at the Royal Academy looking at the relationship between modern art and gardens.

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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