Original artwork description:

Many truly great artists were also gardeners: This artist fits into neither category. Gardening is boring. But it is not hard to see why artists are drawn to the soil. A garden can be a technicolour orgy of organic forms, and it's right outside the back door! Thanks God! Frenchmen Monet and Bonnard, and the German artist Emil Nolde made a decent living out of painting their gardens. David Hockney paints the smallest details of his current modest back garden in Normandy. So gardens have their place in art. But Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti urges caution: 'Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.'

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