Painting the Modern Garden with Lydia Bauman

Monet, perhaps the most important painter of gardens, once said he owed his painting “to flowers”.

But so many other artists not only created gardens but made them the subject of their work – such as Pissarro, Sargent, Tissot, Kandinsky, Klee, Van Gogh, Klimt and Matisse.

The modern garden, transformed by 19th century innovations such as hybridisation, glasshouses and foreign exploration, was part of a great social change to which artists responded from the 1860s onwards.

This talk traces the appearance of the garden as a modern phenomenon and the development of new art movements adopting it as their subject.

Members free. Light refreshments included with lecture. Two sessions.