Mushrooms Depicted in Art
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Some of my favourite artworks that depict mushrooms…by artists including Ming dynasty Chinese artist Qiu Yang, Chinese-Canadian artist Xiaojing Yan, Hine Mizushima, Beatrix Potter and Elsie Wakefield, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu. The Game of Shrooms, the annual world-wide mushroom art N seek event created by Attaboy. Some mushroom magic in film and music at the end with a note on the 2019 documentary film Fantastic Fungi and mushroom music from the late Czech mushroom composer Vaclav Halek.
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