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Woodland fungi
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fly agaric toadstool ~ amanita muscaria
Cultural depictions
Children play on Jose de Creeft's sculpture Alice in Wonderland in Central Park, New York. Alice sits atop a mushroom, inviting children to climb up and join her. Whilst the mushroom in the sculpture is not a faithfully reproduced Amanita muscaria, the reference within Lewis Carrol's original literary work upon which the sculpture is based is often discussed.
Moritz von Schwind's 1851 painting Ruebezahl features fly agarics.
The red-and-white spotted toadstool is a common image in many aspects of popular culture, especially in children's books, film, garden ornaments, greeting cards, and more recently computer games. Garden ornaments, and children's picture books depicting gnomes and fairies, such as the Smurfs, very often show fly agarics used as seats, or homes.Fly agarics have been featured in paintings since the Renaissance,albeit in a subtle manner. In the Victorian era they became more visible, even becoming the main topic of some fairy paintings.Two of the most famous uses of the mushroom are in the video game series Super Mario Bros.,and the dancing mushroom sequence in the 1940 Disney film Fantasia.
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Woodland fungi
© All rights reserved
fly agaric toadstool ~ amanita muscaria
Cultural depictions
Children play on Jose de Creeft's sculpture Alice in Wonderland in Central Park, New York. Alice sits atop a mushroom, inviting children to climb up and join her. Whilst the mushroom in the sculpture is not a faithfully reproduced Amanita muscaria, the reference within Lewis Carrol's original literary work upon which the sculpture is based is often discussed.
Moritz von Schwind's 1851 painting Ruebezahl features fly agarics.
The red-and-white spotted toadstool is a common image in many aspects of popular culture, especially in children's books, film, garden ornaments, greeting cards, and more recently computer games. Garden ornaments, and children's picture books depicting gnomes and fairies, such as the Smurfs, very often show fly agarics used as seats, or homes.Fly agarics have been featured in paintings since the Renaissance,albeit in a subtle manner. In the Victorian era they became more visible, even becoming the main topic of some fairy paintings.Two of the most famous uses of the mushroom are in the video game series Super Mario Bros.,and the dancing mushroom sequence in the 1940 Disney film Fantasia.
Ref: wiki