#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 In painting this picture, Klee had in mind his friend Adolf Busch, a violinist known for his vigorous playing. I think the thick black bars Klee first used in his art a year earlier work well to represent music visually. Paul Klee "Heroic Fiddling" (1938) • More in the ALT

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The Romans called it Floralia and the Celts named it Beltane, but since medieval times in Britain it has been known as May Day, a celebration of the coming of summer complete with maypoles, morris dancing and gathering flowers as in Laura Knight's work from 1910.

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Bullfrogs! 🐸

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So that in a forest even a dead tree casts a shadow . and in the spring the rabbits find it and build their nest inside and have their young and their young will live safely inside the dead tree So that nothing is wasted in nature or in love. - Laura Gilpin #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

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'Apple Picking.' (1878) Winslow Homer solidified his place as a great American artist with his paintings of nostalgic rural life in the decade following the Civil War. His focus on the simple ways of the past reflected the need for hope and peace in the nation.

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