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You can watch Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse (2016) for free on Kanopy.

Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists like Van Gogh, Bonnard, Sorolla, Sargent, Pissarro and Matisse all saw the garden as a powerful subject for their art. These great artists, along with many other famous names, feature in an innovative and extensive exhibition from The Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Claude Monet transformed his backyard into a living canvas, proving that a garden is much more than just a collection of plants. Follow how this obsession with nature inspired a lineage of legendary painters to capture the shifting light and color of the outdoors.

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