{"id":1313,"date":"2009-03-24T10:18:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T10:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2009-03-24T10:18:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T10:18:17","slug":"french-impressionist-painting-and-english-planting-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/french-impressionist-painting-and-english-planting-design\/","title":{"rendered":"French Impressionist painting and English planting design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1315\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/french-impressionist-painting-and-english-planting-design\/monet_artist_garden\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1315\" title=\"monet_artist_garden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/monet_artist_garden.jpg\" alt=\"monet_artist_garden\" width=\"755\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/monet_artist_garden.jpg 755w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/monet_artist_garden-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/monet_artist_garden-624x426.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a>Christine&#8217;s question about the influence of French Impressionist painting on the art of garden design has set me thinking. Since writing an essay about Gertrude Jekyll, at college in 1969, I have argued that the painter who most influenced Gertrude Jekyll&#8217;s style of planting design was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/history_theory\/library_online_ebooks\/tom_turner_english_garden_design\/nineteenth_and_twentith_century\">J M W Turner<\/a>. I still think this is correct but the following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/book\/colour_schemes_for_the_flower_garden\/introduction\/munstead_wood__planting_palette\">comment from Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden <\/a> has been extremely influential. Jekyll wrote that planting design\u00a0 is &#8216;like having a box of paints from the best colourman, or, to go one step further, it is like having portions of these paints set out upon a palette.&#8217; Once you start thinking about plants as &#8216;a palette&#8217; of colours, you are on the high road to English Impressionist Planting Design. Monet&#8217;s own garden at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/giverny_fondation_claude_monet\">Giverny <\/a>was not planted impressionistically but his<em> <\/em>paintings of the garden are in an impressionist style and, curiously, photographs of the Water Lily Pond at Giverny also have an impressionist character.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine&#8217;s question about the influence of French Impressionist painting on the art of garden design has set me thinking. Since writing an essay about Gertrude Jekyll, at college in 1969, I have argued that the painter who most influenced Gertrude Jekyll&#8217;s style of planting design was J M W Turner. I still think this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}