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Henri Matisse, Bees and Beyond

Jane and I have been to Canberra to see the Matisse and Picasso Exhibition. But following on from our Bee Week, today I wanted to show you Matisse's "Bees" creation which was part of the "cut-outs" used by Matisse to design the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, France.

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Cecil Kennedy and his Bees

Sharing some of the delightful watercolour paintings created by British artist Cecil Kennedy.

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Mail Bag: Full of Bees

Bringing you news from our blog supporters who enjoyed reading about "bees". Includes the "Bee Influencer", a New Zealand Bee and other photos of bees from subscribers. Thank you everyone for your support.

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The beehive hairstyle

Caroline takes you on a journey back in time to when "Beehive hairdos" were in favour. We even learn that some celebrities of today still enjoy "that look" . We are in favour of anything that brings attention to bees!

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Celebrating the Amazing Bee

Showccasing some macro photography of bees by the United States Geological Survey. Also Assoc Prof Andrew Barron proves bees can disciminate different styles of art. Finally we show a video of the "bee dance" used to communicate.

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Bees in Jewellery

Images of "bee jewellery" from Minoan culture, Ancient Greece, Victorian times to modern examples of jewellery.

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Bees in Verse

For something different yet still celebrating the "bees in our lives" we thought some poetry by Kahlil Gibran, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Picasso, Norman Rowland Gale. Images by Marchenko Tatyana Mikhailovna, Jani Freimann, Pablo Picasso, Samantha Peers.

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Bees: Where to Next?

Today we give you some directions as to where we are going with preserving bees and how to bring them back into our gardens and cities. Artists such as Wolfgang Buttress and Matthew Willey are creating projects to promote bees.

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Bee Hives and much more

Here we first explain the meaning of 'bee space' and then go on to explore the notion of bees as members of the family who were informed of events such as births, marriages and deaths through the tradition of 'Telling the Bees.

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Bees: Where to Begin?

As this is the first Bee Blog Caroline and Anne take you back to the earliest recorded bee which is 100 million years old. From there we move forward to bees in Ancient Egypt and the Middle East and conclude today with Napoleon's obsession with bees and their symbolic significance.

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