Screening
Monet To Matisse – Exhibition On Screen
4 Jun 2016
Event times
Starts 7.30pm
Cost of entry
£12
Address
- Little High Street
- Shoreham-By-sea
- Worthing
- BN43 5EG
- United Kingdom
A fascinating arts film based on the sell-out ‘Painting The Modern Garden’ show at the Royal Academy, London, exploring how artists from Monet to Matisse used the garden for inspiration.
About
Painting The Modern Garden: an immersive film based on the sell-out show at the Royal Academy, London.
Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists like Van Gogh, Bonnard, Sorolla, Sargent, Pissarroand Matisse all saw the garden as a powerful subject for their art.
From the exhibition walls to the wonder and beauty of artists’ gardens like Giverny and Seebüll, this film takes a magical and widely travelled journey to discover how different contemporaries of Monet built and cultivated modern gardens to explore expressive motifs, abstract colour, decorative design and utopian ideas. Guided by passionate curators, artists and garden enthusiasts, this remarkable collection of Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century will reveal the rise of the modern garden in popular culture and the public’s enduring fascination with gardens today.
Long considered spaces for expressing colour, light and atmosphere, the garden has occupied the creative minds of some of the world’s greatest artists. As Monet said, ‘Apart from painting and gardening, I’m no good at anything’. For lovers of art or lovers of gardens, this is an ideal film.
Produced by award-winning director Phil Grabsky, ‘Exhibition On Screen’ brings blockbuster art exhibitions from galleries around the world to local cinemas. Phil will be in attendance for a Q&A session.
Visit our Exhibition On Screen page for other films in this series.