Judith Bumpus Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Monet once said that only two interests in life were painting and gardening. In Giverny, he combined these enthusiasms to create the most famous of artists' gardens and an ever-changing source of inspiration, the watergarden, planted with several varieties of water lily. This beautifully illustrated book is the first about the impressionists' paintings of gardens anti flowers, a favourite and richly developed subject of all the artists, including Monet, Renoir, Pissaro and Sisley. For many of the Impressionists, cultivating flowers afforded as much pleasure as painting them anti they exchanged enthusiastic letter about the propagation of irises, chrysanthemums and dahlias. With their revolutionary approach to rendering outdoor effects and fleeting atmospheric conditions, they captured the sunlit colour and mood, and almost the smell of flower gardens. In doing so, they registered a new public sensibility: the love, not just of fresh air and greenery, but of gloriously colourful settings on a domestic scale.

Towards the end of Van Gogh's short life, during his time in Provence, his pictures of flowers and plants acquired a singular beauty and intensity. Nature and the countryside provided him with the inspiration, restorative power and freshness of subject matter for which he seems to have yearned. The sight of trees in blossom, flowery meadows, sunflowers and irises prompted endless experiments in colour and movement to result in a wealth of vibrant and intensely beautiful paintings. This stunning book celebrates Van Gogh's profound love of flowers. It contains a broad selection of ravishing colour illustrations, together with a number of the artist's alluring and intriguing pen-and-ink drawings, which demonstrate the vigorous and individual calligraphy of his work. The text draws upon Van Gogh's own moving and descriptive letters to show the great importance to him of nature and flowers, and includes documentary material that is essential and exclusive.