Roberto Burle Marx
(1909-1994)
Artist, Botanist, Landscape
Designer
Born in Brazil—where
he mainly practiced for most of his career
National School of Fine Arts
in Rio de Janeiro, 1930
Artist:
Painting style
Abstract
design
Inspiration
Tropics
Landscape designer:
Landscape as a work of art
His gardens
Rhythm,
texture and imagination
Flowing,
organic, free-form shapes
Plants
of different hues
Hundreds
of plants forming great sweeps of color
The “modern
garden”
Nurseryman
Burle Marx’s
philosophy
of
art
of
landscapes