Exhibition on Screen: Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

Revisiting the Royal Academy exhibit from 2016, Exhibition on Screen’s film, Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, is a timeless articulation of the bond between Art and Nature.

Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists like Van Gogh, Bonnard, Sorolla, Sargent, Pissarro and Matisse all saw the garden as a powerful subject for their art.

Guided by passionate curators, artists and garden enthusiasts, this remarkable collection of Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century reveals the rise of the modern garden in popular culture and the public’s enduring fascination with gardens today.

As Monet said, ‘Apart from painting and gardening, I’m no good at anything’.
For lovers of art or lovers of gardens, this is an ideal film.