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Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau The Garden II (detail)

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Video: Kandinsky and the avant-gardeners

For Matisse, Kandinsky and Munch, the garden provided inspiration as they worked towards new styles of painting.

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The Monet guide to gardening

Love gardening? Here’s how to do it like your favourite Impressionist – from top tips to sourcing your seeds.
Pierre Bonnard's garden

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9 years ago

Video: a visit to three artist gardens in northern France

Take a tour of three beautiful gardens which inspired paintings in our forthcoming exhibition on the garden in art.
Claude Monet , Water Lilies (detail)

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9 years ago

Wartime water lilies: how Monet created his garden at Giverny

Curator Ann Dumas sets the scene for our major exhibition of garden painters, revealing how Monet’s passion for plants pushed the boundaries of his art.
Claude Monet in the garden of his house at Giverny, 1926

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9 years ago

Six of the best: artist-gardeners

In 2016, the Royal Academy explores the influence that gardens exerted on the evolution of art from the 1860s to the 1920s. Here we pick out six of the greatest artist-gardeners from ‘Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse’.