Personal mood lies at the heart of how we perceive gardens, as the National Gallery’s exhibition of the Dutch artist’s work illuminates
Our responses to gardens depend on more than weather, soil and the plants we place in them. They also depend on our moods. Like light, they change with time and circumstances. We are not cameras. I have been musing on this mutability from two angles, the post-Christmas weather and a magnificent exhibition in London’s National Gallery. Each puts viewers’ moods at the heart of how gardens are perceived. If you dream of a white Christmas, in modern Britain the reality is a grey one.
If the light stayed clear in Provence, he wrote, “it would be better than the painters’ paradise: it would be Japan altogether,” his imaginary utopia. What he saw was already interpreted through personal screening. In the south of France, he remarked, he could make out the colour of things at an hour’s distance, the olive trees, the green grass, the “pink-lilac” of ploughed land. In sunlight we still can. In Arles, he rented the yellow house, which his art has now made world- famous.
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