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Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid - Impressionist Gardens - January 2011
Claude Monet - The Park Monceau, 1878 - Oil on canvas.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Impressionist Gardens
We will visit an exhibition dedicated to Impressionist Gardens at the Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, Palacio de Villahermosa, Paseo del Prado 8
Madrid, 28014 on Saturday, January 22, 2011.
Here are the arrangements:
- Saturday, January 22, 2011. We will meet in the cafeteria on the ground floor as from 11.30 for coffee and a 12.00 start. Look for the Advance Communication logo. I will be sitting down, drinking a coffee and holding the logo.
- Book your ticket online for the 12.00 session. It's easy to do: Online ticket purchase. Impressionist Gardens.
Do not wait until the last minute. There is a limited number of tickets per session.
- The visit will finish between 13.00/13.30 followed by an optional early lunch/snack in the Cafeteria to mix and talk, in English! Don't worry about English levels for anyone you want to invite. We can all help with translations.
Please let me know by email before Tuesday, January 18, 18.00 if you will be coming.
Impressionist Gardens
This is an exceptionally wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of the subject of the garden in painting, from the mid-19th century to the early years of the 20th century. The exhibition is organised by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid in collaboration with the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. It is curated by Clare Willsdon, Reader in the History of Art at the University of Glasgow, Michael Clarke, Director of the National Gallery of Scotland, and Guillermo Solana, Chief Curator of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
In the mid-19th century the introduction and hybridization of hundreds of plants and species of exotic flowers from Asia, Africa and South America, in addition to the opening to the public of the royal parks, resulted in a wave of horticultural enthusiasm in France and other European countries. Designing and cultivating gardens became a passion to which the Impressionist painters, including Monet and Caillebotte, were not immune.
The exhibition opens in the galleries of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza with a section devoted to the forerunners of the Impressionist garden. Examples of Romantic-era flower painting (represented by Delacroix) are juxtaposed with depictions of flowers by Bazille and Renoir... You can continue reading about the Impressionist Gardens exhibition here.
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