Garden design

Under garden art refers to the artistic and landscape architectural planning and design limited private or public open spaces by plants, roads, embankments, macrolevellings architectural elements, water features, flowers Rondelle or sculptures, with the kind of design beyond the mere utilization of landscape and garden beyond, the expression of a particular style of aesthetics, art, culture and architecture of an era and artistic creativity is expressed.

In contrast to the garden or landscape architecture, as its precursor, the garden art is, are aesthetic- artistic and less scientific and technical aspects in the foreground here. In the Baroque period the reputation of garden art reached its peak as an art form. The park of the castle of Vaux- le -Vicomte and Versailles Castle, for example, were designed with the applicable baroque corporate, landscape and nature ideals.

Usually primarily parks and landscaped gardens for representation purposes for garden art to be expected, in principle, but it can also act on a private pleasure or vegetable garden is a work of art.

Country style can be found, however, mostly outside of demarcated gardens.

History

In ancient Egypt there were at least 5,000 years ago, around the pyramids, tombs and temples extensive temple gardens, because in addition to food and drinks as well as plants and flowers were sacrificed in honor of the dead and of the gods.

A well-known example from Mesopotamia are the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Also Persian gardens are based on a more than 3,000 -year-old tradition that is typical of Iran and neighboring regions; analogy applies to the garden art in China and Japanese gardens.

Aesthetically designed consciously green and open spaces have been proven since ancient times in cities and in the context of country estates.

Since 1720 originated in England under the influence of the latter East Asian and Chinese gardens and as a deliberate contrast to the French baroque garden of the English landscape garden, which is distinguished by its naturalness and thus stands in stark contrast to the strict and tectonically - formal Baroque garden.