Artists' Gardens

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Artists' gardens are places of both creation and inspiration, often the most personal refleclion of their minds and works. This beautifully iilustraled book celebrates the gardens of twenty artists worldwide, exploring the close links between the artists, their works and their gardens and local landscapes.
The relationship between artist and garden is often an intimate one. The French Impressionist, Renoir, determinedly worked away in his garden at Les Collettes on the French Riviera even when crippled with age - three days before he died he was working on a still life of apples from his garden. Kim Ondaatje has nurtured in the Canadian wilderness an organic garden that is a reflection of her lifestyle and beliefs, while Carl Milles conducted a close supervision of his sculpture garden near Stockholm even when thousands of miles away in Michigan. Claude Monet's artistry created his romantic garden at Giverny, but his observation of it, through failing... Tovább

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Artists' Gardens
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Artists' gardens are places of both creation and inspiration, often the most personal refleclion of their minds and works. This beautifully iilustraled book celebrates the gardens of twenty artists worldwide, exploring the close links between the artists, their works and their gardens and local landscapes.
The relationship between artist and garden is often an intimate one. The French Impressionist, Renoir, determinedly worked away in his garden at Les Collettes on the French Riviera even when crippled with age - three days before he died he was working on a still life of apples from his garden. Kim Ondaatje has nurtured in the Canadian wilderness an organic garden that is a reflection of her lifestyle and beliefs, while Carl Milles conducted a close supervision of his sculpture garden near Stockholm even when thousands of miles away in Michigan. Claude Monet's artistry created his romantic garden at Giverny, but his observation of it, through failing eyesight, also influenced his paintings, leaving us with a fascinating record of the development of his beloved garden and of his physically altering view of il. An often unconscious composing of light and shade, sense of balance and deep unclei-stantling of colour contribute to artists'
gardens just as
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monumental sculptures of Henry Moore set in the English countiyside or the vivid flower paintings of Emil Nolde which, he claimed, paled in comparison with his i-eal flower ganlen on the Baltic.
From Rubens in Antwerp nearly 400 years ago to Jennifer Bartlett today in New York, from the (|uintessentially English gardens of William Mon is and Gertrude Jekyll to the exotic Frida Kuhlo's Mexican home in 'the place of the coyotes". Arti.sls' Gftrdens proves an intriguing insight into how artists have shaped gardens - and how gardens have shaped urtiats. Vissza