When it’s #Caturday but also the last day of #BeKindToSpidersWeek … #PleaseNoSquish
#Cat Watching a #Spider
Oide Tōkō (1841–1905)
#Japan, #Meiji period, c. 1888–92
Album leaf; ink and color on silk
14 3/4 x 11 in. (37.5 x 27.9 cm)
Met collection: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/50826?ft=cat+spider&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=1
#JapaneseArt

For when it's #FroggyFriday during #BeKindToSpidersWeek...
Joana Vasconcelos (Portuguese, b. 1971), #Spider (#frog), signed with the artist's monogram, titled and dated 2011 on the underside crochet and faience, 13 x 39 x 34cm (5 1/8 x 15 3/8 x 13 3/8 in.) https://sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/contemporary-art-day-auction-l14023/lot.466.html

For #BatAppreciationWeek + #BeKindToSpidersWeek, here is a 1905 #TiffanyStudios #ArtNouveau lamp that combines the #spiderweb shade + #bat base!
favrile glass, leaded glass, bronze, 48.9 × 38.1 × 38.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago collection: https://artic.edu/artworks/261151/lamp-with-heavy-ribs-shade-and-bat-base

We don't have an exact birthdate for #Flemish artist Jan van Kessel the Elder, but he was baptised #OTD (5 Apr 1626) so here are the 2 versions of his #caterpillars & #snakes signature (+some bonus #spiders for #BeKindToSpidersWeek - #PleaseNoSquish):

1. oil painting on copper, 1657
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_van_Kessel_(I)_-_Garden_and_house_spiders_with_grass_snakes_and_caterpillars_contorted_and_entwined_to_spell_the_artist%27s_name.jpg

2 oil painting on copper, c.1660s (detail from The Four Continents: The Continent of Europe)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kessel,_Jan_van,_Sr._-_Europa_-_Detail_%22Ian_van_Kessel%22.jpg

#TwoForTuesday for #BeKindToSpidersWeek:

1. Pablo #Picasso (1881-1973), The #Spider (L'Araignée), plate from Histoire naturelle 1936, pub. 1942. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/128351/the-spider-from-histoire-naturelle

2. Paloma Picasso (b. 1949) for #TiffanyAndCo, spider brooch, gold/diamonds/tourmaline/onyx, late 20th century.
https://www.1stdibs.com/jewelry/brooches/brooches/paloma-picasso-gem-set-spider-motif-brooch/id-j_15652112/

#PleaseNoSquish

A lovely #spider piece for #BeKindToSpidersWeek: spindle with foot plate, made of gold with baroque pearl, rose stones and enamel; Russia, 18th century.
Hallwylska museet collection: https://samlingar.shm.se/object/DDE8961C-C2E7-4252-89E6-B86C89E70B03

#PleaseNoSquish

Photo: Bonnevier, Helena, Hallwylska museum/SHM (CC BY 4.0)

2-8 April is both #BatAppreciationWeek 🦇AND #BeKindToSpidersWeek!🕷️ As I love both #bats & #spiders expect lots of art featuring both all week long 😎

Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (1904), Plate 66 Arachnida & Plate 67 Chiroptera, via BHL: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/102214