Short Film
The Impressionists Had A Garden Problem
Giverny. Eragny. Vetheuil. Argenteuil. Bougival. Bordighera. Isles of Shoals. You wouldn't know any of these places if painters hadn't shown up and gone crazy over the flowers. Impressionists painted everything. Cafes, rivers, trains, people dancing. But gardens? Gardens made them all lose it. Monet built one and never left. Pissarro kept painting his until he couldn't hold a brush. Hassam crossed an ocean and found his own garden island. Morisot watched light hit roses like nobody else could. 40 gardens. All real places. All still there because someone once set up a canvas and thought yeah th
