American Moderns - Guided by Art
While some designers found inspiration in the primal forces and biomorphic forms of the natural world, others looked to the often-radical ideas of contemporary art movements. Drawing on such diverse features as the overlapping planes of cubism, the multiple axes of vorticism, the startling colours of pop art, De Stijl’s paring down of colour and form, the simplicity and spirituality of abstract expressionism and the deliberate ephemerality of installation art, designers such as Fletcher Steele, Dan Kiley, Robert Irwin and Martha Schwartz pioneered new approaches to landscape design. Gardens Trust talk presented by writer and garden historian Katie Campbell.
Time: 10:00 GMT
