Gustav Klimt 2025 Wall Calendar - Gustav Klimt - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

Filled with swirling patterns in jewel tones and gold, Gustav Klimt's glamorous paintings of women epitomize the Austrian Art Nouveau movement known as the Vienna Secession. One of its cofounders, Klimt produced works of startling power, symbolism, and eroticism. Portraits of women from Vienna's social elite would come to dominate his career, but he also produced daring landscapes and other delightfully abstract scenes, culminating in what came to be known as his "Golden Phase," when he used gold leaf in many of his paintings. Indulge in a moment of decadence every day with Klimt's 12 magnificent works chosen for this calendar.

Charley Harper 2025 Mini Wall Calendar - Charley Harper - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

With Minimal Realism and maximal style, Charley Harper distilled the essence of each bird he painted, from penguins to puffins, barn owls to Baltimore orioles. He combined wry humor, innovative artistry, and respect for the world's creatures, ultimately becoming an icon of Midcentury Modern wildlife art. Twelve of his expressive works brighten this mini wall calendar.

Tea 2025 Wall Calendar - Pomegranate - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

Treat yourself to one of the world's oldest sensory indulgences-tea! For millennia, the Camellia sinensis plant (the source of all tea) has been at the heart of cultures and culinary traditions, ecologies and economies. Globally, it is the most popular beverage, after water, and its consumption is on the rise. Still a beloved component of many time-honored practices-from the Japanese tea ceremony to the Moroccan custom for welcoming guests-this powerhouse beverage is increasingly studied for its beneficial health aspects and welcomed as part of changing taste trends. Matcha latte, anyone? Or how about an iced bubble tea? The options are endless. Find inspiration in this calendar's 12 lovely photographs and their accompanying tea lore. On your own or in good company, enjoy the refreshing tastes and aromas of tea.

Hiroshige 2024 Wall Calendar - Hiroshige - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

With soft colors and saturated ambience, Utagawa Hiroshige's artwork invites you to experience the natural world as he knew it. One of the last great masters of Edo-period ukiyo-e painting and printmaking, Hiroshige created some of his most influential works during the final decade of his life. His works honor the past and the present, the timeless and the ephemeral in landscapes, flowers, and scenes of daily life. Hiroshige's extraordinary woodblock-print series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo ranks among the greatest achievements of Japanese art. Issued from 1856 to 1858, these prints express the appearance and spirit of Edo at the culmination of more than 200 years of uninterrupted peace and prosperity.

Herbs 2025 Wall Calendar - Pomegranate - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

Herbs and spices have caused wars, saved lives, and deodorized the world's smelliest spaces. Herbs are even to thank for Columbus's initial visit to America; one of the missions of the voyage was a search for new trade routes to make European access to rare herbs and spices more convenient. Highly valued for their uses in cooking, medicine, and for aides in preservation, each herb image in this calendar is accompanied by interesting herb fact or figure. Enjoy the spice of life all 12 months of the year.

Antique Quilts 2025 Wall Calendar - Pomegranate - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

Historically, quilts were often created to celebrate special occasions such as weddings and births and as tokens of remembrance for friends and loved ones. Now, they are deeply valued works of art that are sought after for their beautiful compositions, their authenticity, and their sentimental associations. From the commemorative Arnett Leftovers Album Quilt, each block personalized with an embroidered signature, to the colorful Mosaic Soldier's Quilt, intricately hand pieced from wool uniform remnants, the 12 quilts featured in this calendar represent snapshots of life. Experience history from a new perspective with these stunning quilts from the International Quilt Museum. The International Quilt Museum, located on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, has the world's largest publicly held quilt collection, dating from the early 1700s to present day and representing more than 60 countries; the superb examples collected here celebrate the cultural and artistic significance of quilts.

Rothko 2025 Wall Calendar - Mark Rothko - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

Mark Rothko, a titan among modern painters, said that the subject matter of his paintings was the extremes of human emotion. His extraordinary achievement was the communication of tragedy and elation through forms reduced to starkest simplicity-oftentimes a pair of rectangles.Born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia), the artist emigrated to the United States at the age of 10. After a series of artistic metamorphoses, he established himself as a leader among New York's artistic avant-garde in the late 1940s, in that moment when the devastation of a global war shunted creative impulses into radically new directions. Rothko died in 1970 at the age of 66.The National Gallery of Art is the largest public repository of Rothko's works, with 1,100 works on paper and paintings on canvas and panel.

Antique Maps 2024 Wall Calendar - Pomegranate - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

For centuries, explorers, merchants, and military forces have relied on maps to help navigate our planet. Often skillfully drawn and meticulously plotted, these works of art require skill and creativity to produce. Using anecdotal evidence and scant geographical data, cartographers were known for including fanciful drawings to tease the mind and the imagination. Twelve antique maps from the British Librarys' collection of cartographic material invite you to go back in time and explore the world as it used to be.

Hiroshige 2025 Wall Calendar - Utagawa Hiroshige - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

With soft colors and saturated ambience, Utagawa Hiroshige's artwork invites you to experience the natural world as he knew it. One of the last great masters of Edo-period ukiyo-e painting and printmaking, Hiroshige created some of his most influential works during the final decade of his life. His artwork honors the past and the present, the timeless and the ephemeral in landscapes, flowers, and scenes of daily life. Hiroshige's extraordinary woodblock-print series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo ranks among the greatest achievements of Japanese art. Several works from this magnum opus appear among this calendar's 12 images. Issued from 1856 to 1858, these prints express the appearance and spirit of Edo at the culmination of more than 200 years of uninterrupted peace and prosperity.

Antique Maps 2025 Wall Calendar - Pomegranate - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

Ever curious about what lay beyond the horizon, explorers, merchants, and military forces have for centuries relied upon maps to help them describe and navigate our planet. Although historical maps were often skillfully drawn and meticulously plotted, their layout tells only part of the story. Using anecdotal evidence and sometimes scant geographical data for places they themselves may never have seen, cartographers frequently included fanciful or factual drawings to tease the imagination and the intellect-to wit, figureheads symbolizing the wind rose on a world map from Ptolemy's Cosmographia.Explore the world of old with this calendar's 12 antique maps from the British Library's collection of cartographic material.

Tom Thomson 2025 Wall Calendar - Tom Thomson - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

Tom Thomson loved the rough country of northern Ontario. His exploratory artistic style and his appreciation of the wilderness helped shape the style of the Group of Seven, though his untimely death prevented him from exhibiting with the Group. Thomson created hundreds of small oil paintings while supporting himself as a guide and forest ranger in Algonquin Park. Many of Thomson's oil sketches were executed in only a few hours, but they remain masterpieces of Canadian art.

Faith Ringgold 2025 Wall Calendar - Faith Ringgold - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

With bold color, inventive composition, and words written straight from the heart, Faith Ringgold's art speaks out in a clear voice. An artist, storyteller, educator, and feminist activist, Ringgold reflects on turmoil and change while preserving her memories in vibrant mixed-media creations. Her painted story quilts blur the lines between craft and fine art while stitching together the importance of family, cultural roots, and artistic collaboration. This calendar presents 12 of her stirring images.

Claude Monet 2025 Wall Calendar - Claude Monet - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

With agile brushwork, quick dabs of joyful color, and a then-daring artistic style, Claude Monet captured fleet- ing impressions of nature in everyday settings. Monet devoted himself to perfecting the depiction of light and atmosphere in his paintings. Weather, season, and mood are as masterfully portrayed as the less ephemeral masses of blooms in Monet's garden scenes and still lifes. The 12 Impressionist paintings presented in this calendar were revolutionary when they were created, and to this day Monet is considered one of the greatest painters in the history of art.

Kawase Hasui 2025 Wall Calendar - Kawase Hasui - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

Edward Hopper 2025 Wall Calendar - Edward Hopper - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

Edward Hopper built his paintings around light. Filled with quiet and solitude, his paintings are often warmed by the sun: "I like long shadows and early and late sunlight. I am . . . trying to paint sunlight without eliminating the form under it, if I can." In this collection, the light that so fascinated the artist bathes New England land and sea as it enters indoor spaces with geometric intensity. Hopper spent nearly every summer of his prolific career in New England. However, he was born and raised in Nyack, New York, studied painting at the New York School of Art, and wintered in Greenwich Village. The outcome of this dual residency is a body of work rich in rural landscapes and seascapes, as well as studies of city life. Twelve of Hopper's superb paintings, featuring both rural and urban scenes, are presented in this calendar.

Rothko 2025 Mini Wall Calendar - Mark Rothko - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

Mark Rothko, who was central to the development of postwar abstract painting in the United States, is best known for the luminous paintings he made in the 1950s and 1960s. These classic works are characterized by their soft-edged rectangular forms and broad, thin washes of color. Rothko worked on large canvases, but he felt that the scale was intimate, establishing a close physical relationship with the viewer. These extraordinary images invite contemplation and spiritual communion.The National Gallery of Art is the largest public repository of Rothko's works, with 1,100 works on paper and paintings on canvas and panel.

Emily Carr 2025 Wall Calendar - Emily Carr - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

The British Columbia wilderness and the First Nations culture formed the two great themes of Emily Carr's work. Through her landscapes and haunting depictions of totems, she is deservedly considered the premier painter of Canada's Pacific coast. After training in San Francisco and Europe, Carr began her career in Vancouver, producing an impressive body of First Nations images in the year 1912. After a prolonged period of relative inactivity, at the age of 56 she returned to northern British Columbia and began painting the canvases for which she is most noted.

Richard Mayhew 2025 Wall Calendar - Richard Mayhew - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

After nearly a century of looking both inward and outward, Richard Mayhew creates what he calls "mindscapes," the essence of places remembered or imagined. His brilliant paintings allude to an "invented consciousness," a spirituality and connection to the land, inherited from his Native American and African American ancestors. The artist himself was immersed in the Civil Rights struggle and is a lauded member of the National Academy of Art, but he resists depicting overt themes of ethnicity or culture. Saturated with color and illusion, Mayhew's works evoke both the earthly and the transcendental. Twelve of his luminous paintings are on display in this calendar.

England by Rail 2025 Wall Calendar - Pomegranate - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

High-style vintage travel posters encouraged visits to England's historic landmarks, rolling hills, and tranquil waterways while enjoying the comforts and speed of rail excursions. Artists helped transform the image of travel throughout the United Kingdom, tempting would-be vacationers out of the cities to spend leisure time in such idyllic destinations as Newquay on the Cornish coast and the all-season pleasures of Scarborough. The posters reproduced here are a robust sampling of railway advertising output spanning the 1920s to the 1950s, when both accomplished landscape painters and little-known designers were hired to create these enticing scenes. Grab your ticket to a yearlong holiday visiting England's top destinations with this calendar of 12 vintage travel posters.

Carl Larsson 2025 Wall Calendar - Carl Larsson - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

From a wintry scene of plein air painting to a game of peek-a-boo by a cozy fireplace, Carl Larsson captures the joys of his lively household with his intimate works of art. After Larsson and his family moved into their country cottage, Lilla Hyttnaes, he found artistic inspiration in visitors, relatives, and the house itself (for which his wife, artist Karin Bergoeoe, did much of the interior design). The idyllic image Larsson presented in his watercolors-particularly his series A Home-became widely popular, influencing Swedish art and design. Brighten your own home with this calendar of 12 paintings from one of Sweden's most beloved artists.

Albrecht Duerer 2025 Wall Calendar - Albrecht Duerer - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

German Renaissance artist Albrecht Duerer is held up as perhaps the most significant artist of his time, particularly for his printmaking. The son of a Nuremberg goldsmith, Duerer was introduced early to the tools in his father's trade. When he was eventually allowed to train as an artist, Duerer apprenticed to a local publisher before traveling throughout Europe, where he encountered artists who greatly influenced his work. Over the next few decades, he created woodcuts and engravings that revolutionized printmaking as a form of fine art. This collection of 12 woodcut prints from the collections of The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Art depict a range of subjects including the Last Supper, the Virgin Mary, and celestial intervention.

African American Art 2025 Wall Calendar - Pomegranate - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

African American artists have made monumental contributions to the world of art, producing an influential body of work informed by the Black experience. Celebrated here is the art of Emma Amos, Grafton Tyler Brown, Keshida Layone, Lois Mailou Jones, Whitfield Lovell, Dominique Ramsey, Charles White, Laura James, Charles Ethan Porter, Romare Bearden, Laura Wheeler Waring, and Aaron Douglas-some of whom are very well known and others who aren't but should be. Working in diverse styles, techniques, and media, many of these artists have created memorable images laced with social commentary, cultural affirmation, myth and history, and simple love for people in all their beauty, folly, and nobility. Others have discarded the constraints of representational imagery for a semi-abstracted language that challenges viewers to consider the familiar and the unknown from new perspectives. Twelve superb works of art have been selected for this calendar.

Charley Harper 2025 Wall Calendar - Charley Harper - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

Animals and plants go Midcentury Modern in Charley Harper's clever conservationist paintings. Inspired by backyard biodiversity and the wonders of nature preserves, Harper portrayed wildlife with heart and humor, in flat colors and simple lines. His depictions of various ecosystems and, above all, brilliant birds, showcased his trademark style of Minimal Realism. The 12 paintings here are as popular now as the day they were made, and they continue Harper's legacy as an artist whose work was a quiet catalyst for environmental action.

Alphonse Mucha 2025 Wall Calendar - Alphonse Mucha - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

Alphonse Mucha's iconic linework gained popularity in Paris toward the end of the 19th century and to this day remains some of the most recognizable work from this time period. Producing lithographs advertising everything from champagne to theatre productions, Mucha and his portraiture of glamorous women draped in flowing gowns and pastel florals helped to define the Art Nouveau movement. He wrote of his work, "I was happy to be involved in an art for the people and not for private drawing rooms. It was inexpensive, accessible to the general public, and it found a home in poor families as well as in more affluent circles." Sixteen of Mucha's decorative prints are reproduced in this calendar. Double images themed to the equinox and solstice grace each changing season.

Alma Thomas 2025 Wall Calendar - Alma Thomas - Bog - Pomegranate - Plusbog.dk

Inspired by space exploration and the earthly delights of gardens and music, Alma Thomas created brilliant abstractions that place her among the most innovative American painters of the 20th century. Breaking from realism in the 1950s, she moved through abstraction and into expressionism before finding a niche in a mosaic compositional style and reveling in color theory. With vibrant works such as Starry Night and the Astronauts and Color Etude (or Spring Bouquet), Thomas improvised with light, color, rhythm, and an aerial perspective that interpreted her world in a new way. After over 40 years in education, Thomas retired and focused on her art, eventually becoming the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. With dazzling paintings like the 12 collected in this calendar, Thomas left her mark upon the history of Modern art.