In the Gardens of Impressionism

Author: Clare A. P. Willsdon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
From Manet's earliest depictions of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris to Monet's late waterlilies painted at Giverny, the Impressionists had an ongoing love affair with gardens. As places of rest, relaxation, and beauty, gardens were the Impressionist subject par excellence. This beautifully illustrated volume is the first consideration of this beloved theme in the Impressionists' work. Here the artists' fascination with gardens, parks, and flowers is explored in the context of the contemporary craze for horticulture and the changing political and cultural landscape in France. Drawing on archival sources such as horticultural journals as well as literature, poetry, and correspondence, the book describes how gardens, simultaneously modern and imbued with nostalgia, were central to the Impressionists' discovery of their distinctive plein-air (out-of-doors) style. At the same time, by bringing to life the 19th-century tradition of ?oral symbolism and exploring how it infiltrated the work of key Impressionists, the book gives familiar works radical new interpretations. This vital contribution to our understanding of the Impressionist world is sure to delight art and gardening enthusiasts alike.

Impressionist Gardens

Author: Clare A. P. Willsdon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
A beautiful exploration of the rich history and striking evolution of Impressionist garden paintings.

The Impressionist Garden

Author: Derek Fell
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN: 9780517598511
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Derek Fell offers 25 full-color plans to inspire amateur gardeners with modest-size gardens to re-create glimmering planting schemes--both those the Impressionists envisioned on canvas and those they created in reality. The accent throughout is on the practical and achievable. Full-color photographs.

Public Parks, Private Gardens

Author: Colta Ives
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395847
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
The spectacular transformation of Paris during the 19th century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks both redesigned the capital and inspired the era’s great Impressionist artists. The renewed landscape gave crowded, displaced urban dwellers green spaces to enjoy, while suburbanites and country-dwellers began cultivating their own flower gardens. As public engagement with gardening grew, artists increasingly featured flowers and parks in their work. Public Parks, Private Gardens includes masterworks by artists such as Bonnard, Cassatt, Cézanne, Corot, Daumier, Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, Monet, and Seurat. Many of these artists were themselves avid gardeners, and they painted parks and gardens as the distinctive scenery of contemporary life. Writing from the perspective of both a distinguished art historian and a trained landscape designer, Colta Ives provides new insights not only into these essential works, but also into this extraordinarily creative period in France’s history.

Impressionism

Author: Linda S. Ferber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692705377
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 77

Book Description

Impressionism

Author: Robert L. Herbert
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300050836
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
Examines the use of cafes, opera houses, dance halls, theaters, racetracks, and the seaside in impressionist French paintings

Everyday Monet

Author: Aileen Bordman
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062692984
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
Bring Monet’s paintings and gardens to life using this gorgeously illustrated book that will teach you how to create a Monet lifestyle from your living room to your kitchen to your garden—from the documentarian and author of Monet’s Palate Cookbook, with the support of the American steward and all the head gardeners at Giverny. Aileen Bordman has long been influenced by the work of Claude Monet, one of the founders of French Impressionist painting whose esteemed works capturing the simple beauties of fin de siècle French life—from waterlilies to haystacks—have fetched astonishing sums at private auction houses and can be found in the greatest art museums around the globe. With direct access to Giverny through a pair of insiders—her mother, a steward of the Giverny estate, and its head gardener—she transports you to Monet’s garden at Giverny, the third most visited site in France, in Everyday Monet. Combining the history, palette colors, and designs of Monet’s gardens and paintings in this one-of-a-kind volume, Aileen shows how to encapsulate a home and lifestyle inspired by the artist. Filled with insights, step-by-step instructions, musings, recipes, gorgeous photography, and how-to graphics, Everyday Monet teaches how to grow a garden like Monet, preserve a waterlily inside the home, decorate a dining room table or a bathroom inspired by Monet’s aesthetic, and prepare foods that inspire your inner-Impressionist. Filled with lush photos of Monet’s milieu—from the gardens of Giverny to the streets of Normandy—and reproductions of Monet’s most famous paintings, Everyday Monet is a practical guide to finding ways to implement Monet’s beautiful designs into any home and garden, whether you live on a country estate or in a city apartment, and is a memorable keepsake Monet devotees will treasure.

American Impressionists

Author: Susan Behrends Frank
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Luminous works by Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, John Henry Twachtman, are among the 100 seminal works featured in this book showcasing 27 artists. As members of the first generation of American painters to absorb the technique, brighter palette, and subject matter of Impressionism from their French counterparts, these artists transformed the heroic American landscape into a modern idiom, in atmospheric park and beach scenes, urban views, and charming interiors, with particular interest in optical effects, light, and the seasons. This book provides a vivid summary of the movement, starting with its roots in earlier American art and its relationship to French Impressionism. It charts the response of many of these American artists to one of the most beloved movements in 19th century painting. All of the masterworks are here, in full color, from Hassam's sun-drenced gardens to Twachtman's snowy landscapes. It is a celebration of the Impressionist style and it's fresh interpretatiuon of America's landscapes

Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

Author: Monty Don
Publisher: Royal Academy Books
ISBN: 9781910350027
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
"Exhibition organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts, London."

Impressionist Gardens

Author: Judith Bumpus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
A compilation of paintings (of gardens) by Impressionist artists. A popular subject for artists such as Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley, their work captures their celebration of fresh air, of greenery and of colourful settings on a domestic scale.