For Real Toads: the art of Alphonse Mucha

Alphonse Mucha mighta been

just another commercial hack,

painting pictures

with which to sell beer

biscuits

bicycles

blueing

chocolate

and soap.

But Sarah Bernhardt

loved the painting

he did for her—

and a style was born.

Art Nouveau was just his thing!

My friend Fireblossom       
over at

Imaginary Garden with

Real Toads

asked us to write a poem based on the art of Alphonse Mucha, born in 1860 and among the first to die in one of Hitler's camps in 1939.