The Garden As Art

Art that best helps us understand a culture and its values

Sarah Jordan
Why Gardens?
Gardens are one of the best ways to understand the
society and cultural traditions in which they were made
and should be considered a form of art.
I define art as man made; it must be filtered through
mans mind and vision, and requires skill, intent (there is
a purpose), and must evoke an emotional reaction.
Gardens are art.
Gardens Can Be Works of
Art
Yes. Why? Because:
1. Experimentation with colors like painters
2. Design and shapes like sculptors
3. Envision how light affects the garden
throughout the day such as a photographer
(If not a photographer then as a painter)
Using Nature to Make Art
Thats me!
Thats
Monet
Top 10 Gardens (According to National Geographic)
1. Chteau de Versailles (Versailles, France)
2. Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England)
3. Powerscourt Gardens (Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland)
4. Butchart Gardens (Vancouver Island, British Columbia)
5. Villa dEste (Tivoli, Italy)
6. Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, D.C)
7. Gardens of the Villa phrussi de Rothschild (St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France)
8. Stourhead (Warminster, England)
9. The Master-of-Nets Garden (Suzhou, China)
10.Sans Souci (Potsdam, Germany)
Butchart Gardens
(Brentwood Bay, British
Columbia, Canada)
Keukenhof
Gardens (Lisse,
Netherlands)

The Garden
of Cosmic
Speculation
(Portrack
House,
South West
Scotland)

Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew
(London, Surrey,
United Kingdom)

Stourhead Garden
(Wiltshire, England

Alhambra (Granada, Andalusia,
Spain)

Exbury Gardens
(Hampshire, England)
Suan Nong Nooch
(Chonburi Province,
Thailand)

Drummond Castle (Perthshire, Scotland)

Villa dEste (Como, Italy

Yuyuan Garden (Shanghai,
China)

Versailles
Giverny
Millennium Park
Lurie Garden