(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- ArtsCAP and The ShowRoom present Painting the Modern Garden - Monet to Matisse, the next film in the The ShowRoom's Art & Architecture Series.  Screenings will be held on Sunday, July 10 at 1:30pm and Tuesday, July 12 at 1:30pm. Tickets are $10.

Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists like Van Gogh, Bonnard, Sargent, Pissarro and Matisse all saw the garden as a powerful subject for their art. These great artists, along with many other famous names, are featured in the film of an in an innovative and extensive exhibition from The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Royal Academy, London.

From the exhibition walls to the wonder and beauty of artists' gardens like Giverny and Seebüll, the film takes a magical and widely travelled journey to discover how different contemporaries of Monet built and cultivated modern gardens to explore expressive motifs, abstract color, decorative design and utopian ideas. In the film, passionate curators, artists and garden enthusiasts, guide the viewer through this  remarkable collection of Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century as well as reveal the rise of the modern garden in popular culture today, long considered spaces for expressing color, light and atmosphere. As Monet said, 'Apart from painting and gardening, I'm no good at anything'. For lovers of art or lovers of gardens, this is an ideal film.