GARDEN AND PARK ART – the art of designing and creating parks, forest parks, gardens, squares, boulevards and other landscaping objects. Based on the ability to use the laws of composition, perspective, the theory of light and color when using natural (plant, soil, water, stone) and other materials; as a field of art expresses a certain ideological content in artistic images.

“Gardening art captivates our attention with a multitude of pleasant objects arranged along a contour combined with beauty: alleys, portals, idols, sculptural statues, gazebos, grottoes and other decorations produce such actions in us that the garden seems to extend beyond real objects … the gardener, when arranging plants, imitating nature, produces by his order the beauty, which, captivating us, enthralls us ”[Lem, 1818. Part III. P. 1].

“The art of decorating nature purely achieves its goal, is it possible together to excite our thoughts. The most beautiful solitude has its disadvantages: our weakness and lack of strength require that we mix rest after long reflections with those feelings that the spectacle of nature instills in us ”[Collection of new thoughts …, 1799. Book VI, description for drawing I] …

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