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Color lithograph trade card depicting a white snowdrop flower (Galanthus nivalis) with green leaves, from the Flowers series for Old Judge Cigarettes, published by Goodwin & Company in 1890.

The Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis)

January 1, 2026
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtAmerican ArtTeaching Resources

The snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis, heralds January with quiet resilience, symbolizing hope and renewal, while the Old Judge cards transform this delicate bloom into art, blending nature, culture, and everyday life.

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Andy Warhol’s Kiku Prints

October 31, 2025
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtAmerican ArtTeaching Resources

Chrysanthemums, the flower of November, bridge Matsuo Bashō’s haiku meditation on autumnal impermanence with Andy Warhol’s Kiku prints, where repetition and color transform a traditional Japanese symbol into a modern reflection on beauty, memory, and cultural continuity.

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Morning Glories by Suzuki Kiitsu, Japanese Edo period artist (1796–1858), six-panel folding screens with ink, color, and gold leaf on paper, The Met Museum, New York, USA

Morning Glories by Suzuki Kiitsu

September 30, 2025
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtJapanese ArtTeaching Resources

Suzuki Kiitsu’s Morning Glories screens embody Rinpa elegance, transforming seasonal blooms into rhythmic cascades of color and gold that blur nature and design into a timeless meditation on fleeting beauty.

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Marigolds

August 31, 2025
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtBritish ArtTeaching Resources

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Marigolds transforms a quiet domestic moment into a symbolic meditation on renewal, where simple floral arrangement becomes an intimate expression of resilience, beauty, and nature’s persistent return.

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In Poppyland

July 31, 2025
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtAmerican ArtTeaching Resources

A luminous field of crimson poppies, a drowsy summer sky, and the quiet magic of nature — John Ottis Adams’s In Poppyland is landscape painting at its most poetic.

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Imperial Basket with Lilies of the Valley

April 30, 2025
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtTeaching Resources

Gifted to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in 1896, Fabergé’s Imperial Basket with Lilies of the Valley transforms gold, pearls, and diamonds into a breathtaking tribute to nature, loyalty, and imperial grace.

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Henri Emile Benoît Matisse's painting depicting Daisies.

Daisies by Henri Matisse

March 31, 2025
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtFrench ArtTeaching Resources

Painted in 1939 on the eve of World War II, Matisse’s Daisies at the Art Institute of Chicago transforms a simple bouquet into a radiant celebration of colour, light, and resilience.

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David Hockney's iPad painting The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020, Do Remember They Can't Cancel the Spring.

David Hockney’s Daffodils

February 28, 2025
by Amalia Spiliakou British ArtTeaching Resources

Created during pandemic lockdown, David Hockney’s vibrant iPad painting Daffodils captures spring’s triumphant arrival in Normandy — a luminous, hopeful celebration of nature’s resilience embodied in his memorable phrase, ‘They can’t cancel the Spring.’

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Sweet Violet, Vienna Dioscurides

Sweet Violet

January 31, 2025
by Amalia Spiliakou Byzantine ArtEarly Christian ArtTeaching Resources

Explore the Vienna Dioscurides, a 6th-century fusion of art and science, preserving De Materia Medica through exquisite botanical illustrations and imperial patronage.

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Bernardino Luini's The Madonna of the Carnation.

Bernardino Luini’s the Madonna of the Carnation

December 31, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou Italian Renaissance ArtRenaissance Art

In Madonna of the Carnation, Bernardino Luini transforms the carnation into a quiet symbol of divine love, purity, and foreshadowed sacrifice within an intimate mother-and-child scene.

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