Impressionist gardens (en anglais) - Couverture souple

Bumpus, Judith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0714838136 ISBN 13 : 9780714838137

Editeur : Phaidon, 1999

Synopsis

Monet once said that his only two interests in life were painting and gardening. In Giverny, he combined these enthusiasms to create the most famous of artists' gardens. This beautifully illustrated book is the first ever about the Impressionists' shared passion for painting gardens and flowers: a favourite and richly developed subject of all the artists including Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley.

For many of the Impressionists, cultivating flowers afforded as much pleasure as painting them, and they exchanged enthusiastic letters about the propagation of irises, chrysanthemums and dahlias. With their revolutionary approach to rendering outdoor effects and fleeting atmospheric conditions, they captured the sunlit colour and mood - and even suggested the smell - of flower gardens. In doing so, they registered a new public sensibility: the love, not just of fresh air and greenery, but of gloriously colourful settings on a domestic scale.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Judith Bumpus is an independent art historian and the author of Van Gogh's Flowers, also published by Phaidon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phaidon
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0714838136
• ISBN 13: 9780714838137
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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