Poppy ‘Danish Flag’
A photograph of a poppy (Papaver somniferum ‘Danish Flag’) at the Monet’s Garden exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)—May 20, 2012.
The Monet’s Garden exhibition is a stunning tribute to French Impressionist Claude Monet. The exhibit showcases a seasonally changing interpretation of the garden that inspired his art.
Monet brought together the best of old species with the latest in the horticultural trade—both imports and new hybrids—in his gardens.
Dignitaries and journalists traveled to Giverny to see the gardens, and during Monet’s lifetime the gardens became as intrinsic a part of his public persona as the paintings in which they were forever immortalized.
In a letter to art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, Monet wrote, “I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” Monet took such pride in his painstaking construction and maintenance of his garden that he proclaimed to his stepson Jean-Pierre Hoschedé, “My most beautiful work of art is my garden.”
In a masterstroke of differentiation, Monet forged his own path rather than following the artistic trends that took hold during the 20th century. Monet underscored his commitment to depictions of the natural world in his paintings in the 20th century, even as his fellow artists at the time were abandoning nature as a modernist subject.
Curator Paul Hayes Tucker, the world’s foremost authority on Claude Monet and Impressionism, is the Paul Hayes Tucker Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he has taught since 1978. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1979 with a dissertation on Monet, the subject of five of his eleven books and three of the dozen exhibitions he has curated around the world.
Designer Scott Pask is an award-winning scenic designer, whose extensive Broadway credits include the hit revivals of Promises, Promises, HAIR, and Nine. Educated in architecture and theater design, he has won Tony Awards for his design of The Pillowman, The Coast of Utopia, and The Book of Mormon, and has recently designed the latest show for Cirque du Soleil, Amaluna.
Poppy ‘Danish Flag’
A photograph of a poppy (Papaver somniferum ‘Danish Flag’) at the Monet’s Garden exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)—May 20, 2012.
The Monet’s Garden exhibition is a stunning tribute to French Impressionist Claude Monet. The exhibit showcases a seasonally changing interpretation of the garden that inspired his art.
Monet brought together the best of old species with the latest in the horticultural trade—both imports and new hybrids—in his gardens.
Dignitaries and journalists traveled to Giverny to see the gardens, and during Monet’s lifetime the gardens became as intrinsic a part of his public persona as the paintings in which they were forever immortalized.
In a letter to art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, Monet wrote, “I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” Monet took such pride in his painstaking construction and maintenance of his garden that he proclaimed to his stepson Jean-Pierre Hoschedé, “My most beautiful work of art is my garden.”
In a masterstroke of differentiation, Monet forged his own path rather than following the artistic trends that took hold during the 20th century. Monet underscored his commitment to depictions of the natural world in his paintings in the 20th century, even as his fellow artists at the time were abandoning nature as a modernist subject.
Curator Paul Hayes Tucker, the world’s foremost authority on Claude Monet and Impressionism, is the Paul Hayes Tucker Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he has taught since 1978. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1979 with a dissertation on Monet, the subject of five of his eleven books and three of the dozen exhibitions he has curated around the world.
Designer Scott Pask is an award-winning scenic designer, whose extensive Broadway credits include the hit revivals of Promises, Promises, HAIR, and Nine. Educated in architecture and theater design, he has won Tony Awards for his design of The Pillowman, The Coast of Utopia, and The Book of Mormon, and has recently designed the latest show for Cirque du Soleil, Amaluna.