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Why impressionists loved to paint gardens
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An article exploring the impressionist painters' fascination with gardens as artistic subjects, referencing works by Monet, Renoir, Morisot, and Pissarro, and drawing on the author's book on the topic.
Why impressionists loved to paint gardens
Woman with a Parasol in a Garden by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1875). Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Dahlias thrust their colours skywards; hollyhocks frame a child at play; peasants tend cabbages; water lilies dot the surface of a pond. The “impressionist garden” captures all of these moments and more.
But why were Monet, Renoir, Morisot, Pissarro and their colleagues so attracted to gardens? It’s a subject I sought to answer in my book In the Gardens of Impressionism.
One answer lies in the sheer ubiqu
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