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<\/a>Andy Sturgeon's M&G Garden Chelsea 2012<\/p><\/div> The M&G Garden, designed by Andy Sturgeon, would have received the Gardenvisit Award for ‘Best in Show‘, but for the designer’s crackpot explanation. Here is the Telegraph’s account of what he said: \u2018The M&G Garden\u2019 2012, a \u2018New English\u2019 garden harking back to the Arts and Crafts movement, but with a modern-day twist. Featuring monolithic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439"}],"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=8439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe M&G Garden, designed by Andy Sturgeon, would have received the Gardenvisit Award for ‘Best in Show<\/a>‘, but for the designer’s crackpot explanation. Here is the Telegraph’s account of what he said: \u2018The M&G Garden\u2019 2012, a \u2018New English\u2019 garden harking back to the Arts and Crafts movement, but with a modern-day twist. Featuring monolithic blocks of stone, a 98ft free-form \u2018energy wave\u2019 sculpture and a mix of formal, asymmetrical designs and informal cottage-garden planting, the garden truly reflects the values of M&G.’
\nArtists have been much better at naming styles and Wiki gives the following for the contemporary period<\/a>:
\n Contemporary art – present
\n Toyism 1992 – present
\n Digital art 1990 – present
\n Postmodern art – present
\n Modernism – present
\n New realism 1960 –
\n Performance art – 1960s –
\n Fluxus – early 1960s – late-1970s
\n Conceptual art – 1960s –
\n Graffiti 1960s-
\n Junk art (adde) 1960s –
\n Psychedelic art early 1960s –
\n Lyrical Abstraction mid-1960s –
\n Process art mid-1960s – 1970s
\n Arte Povera 1967 –
\n Photorealism – Late 1960s – early 1970s
\n Land art – late-1960s – early 1970s
\n Post-minimalism late-1960s – 1970s
\n Installation art – 1970s –
\n Mail art – 1970s –
\n Neo-expressionism late 1970s –
\n Metarealism – 1970 -1980, Russia
\n Figuration Libre early 1980s
\n Metaphorical realism
\n Young British Artists 1988 –
\n Rectoversion 1991 –
\n Transgressive art
\n Synaesthesia events
\n Neoism 1979
\n Deconstructivism
\n Battle Elephants 1984
\n Massurrealism 1992 –
\n Stuckism 1999 –
\n Remodernism 1999 –
\n Maximalism
\n ArT is free 2010-
\nWould any of these fit Andy Sturgeon’s garden? Well ‘postmodern’ certainly would. Readers are invited to suggest classifications.
\n‘Classifying Andy’ is part of a wider problem: are garden designers and landscape architects totally lacking style?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"