today in the National Gallery of Scotland (Edinburgh) presents "Gardens of the Impressionists».

Perhaps it is Impressionists belong championship in the opening theme garden as an independent subject in painting. If, before the French Impressionists of the XIX century garden in the paintings is, rather, the backdrop for genre scenes with picnics and tea parties, in their works began to play an independent role.

Visitors can admire the gardens Monet ( Claude Monet), Camille Pissarro (Camille Pissarro), Pierre Auguste Renoir (Pierre-Auguste Renoir) and Alfred Sisley (Alfred Sisley). Will be presented, and works Edouard Manet (Edouard Manet), who himself did not regard themselves to the impressionists. The exhibition also includes paintings generation of artists who worked immediately after the Impressionists, including Cézanne (Paul Cezanne) and Pierre Bonnard (Pierre Bonnard).

At a time when these artists wrote their paintings in France in vogue were public gardens and recreational gardening. Of the colonies in the French gardens flooded exotic plants such as dahlias, chrysanthemums and hydrangeas.

at the painting "The public garden at Pontoise" Pissarro and "Parc Monceau" Monet depicted the public gardens of Paris. While Berthe Morisot (Berth Morisot) and Renoir in his work appealed to a wild garden, which is boldly painted with broad strokes and bright colors in the painting "Meadow" Sisley rural landscape is written with more restraint, as well as on canvas "in the Garden L'Hermitage "Pissarro.

Looking at the wonderful paintings" Garden in Argenteuil Artist "and" Garden in Vétheuil "Claude Monet, understand how the author appreciated the beauty of their home gardens. Three of his pictures with your favorite water lilies at Giverny - among the key exhibits.

hundred works on display, arrived in Edinburgh from all over the world. They were kind enough to give private collectors and national museums, such as Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA), the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Paris Musée d'Orsay and the UK's Tate Gallery.

Material prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: independent.co.uk , artinvestment.ru