OMG ART

I've never been one to *truly* appreciate art. I like pretty things and I appreciate beauty, but I've never understood most types of art. Especially modern art. I just don't get it.

This evening, I caught a random documentary on Art Nouveau, and I saw a piece that I absolutely fell in love with. And I looked up the artist, and I want pretty much ALL of her art. I WANT IT!!!

The sad part is that my very favourite piece of hers is not well-known, so it's not easily available in print. Booooo....

Either way, I want to share this piece of artwork with you in hopes that it makes you as happy as it made me :)

First: the poem that inspired the painting - and can I say, I love the poem as much as I love the artwork. My heart is just so full of happy feelings!!!

THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS
W.B. Yeats

I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.

When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

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