From Monet to Matisse. Painting the Modern Garden. My Tips.

I love being practical in everything what I am doing.
​It means being proactive in received knowledge, crisp in understanding and straight to the point!
So I have decided to create the series of topics, the main ideas and phrases about the subject of learning, schematically covered in points.
It will be interesting for you to have an idea about what we are talking during the tour and, therefore, my visitor of museum can go deeper in comprehensive understanding of the following.

Today I will start with my favorite exhibition in Royal Academy of Arts, from Monet to Matisse. Painting Modern Garden. The key phrases, words, ideas, categories to enjoy your journey in Art History:

• Monet as an innovator with the new radical approach to painting
•  resulted life of poverty but has moved towards wealth, becoming celebrated figure
•  recognized true masterpieces today
•  artistic genius, the greatest of impressions
•  caricaturist at age 15 (notice figures in his art)
•  passion for open air outdoor paintings
•  very beginning believe in true of immediacy
•  in front of the subject 
•  natural light - main preoccupation 
•  attempt to capture the sensation (here and now, not in studio)
•  Académie Suisse in Paris (meeting Pissarro)
•  emphases "nature as an element of study"
•  fellow artists: Sisley and Renoir
•  the light dictated the way the figures would be painted, the trees, grass and everything - unifying in paintings
•  color theories: 3 primary color and their complementaries​
  
•  "garden of earthy delights”
  
•  ‘Aside from painting and gardening I’m good for nothing’, Monet
  
• his twin passions that shaped his life
  
•  precocious botanist
  
•  gardening was emerging as the widespread popular pastime, as remaining today
  
•  bourgeois have an opportunity to create their own private Eden
  
•  new hybrid flowers provided new ‘pallet’ for the artists
  
•  garden as an ideal setting to explore the informal modern-life subjects
  
•  new notion of composition and colour (Impressionism)
  
•  grew the forest of sunflowers
  
•  vogue of japonisme, enthusiastic collector of Japanese prints
  
•  arched shape of the bridge
  
•  exhibitions with the help of his dealer Duran-Ruel gallery in Paris 1909 (Water Landscapes)
  
• ​ 'no more water, no my sky, no more limits’, critic Roger Marx
  
•  ultimate symbiosis between his garden and his art
  
•  very personal response to mass tragedy of the WWI in Monet’s monumental canvases 
  
•  extraordinary reunion of 3 large canvases in RA
•  “My garden is the most beautiful Art Work”, Monet
  

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To be continued ...