There's more to mistletoe art than just Christmas cards...

This mistletoe-themed glass medallion is an invitation to Rene Lalique's 1912 exhibition.

Mistletoe Art Miscellany

Mistletoe can appear in a variety of other art-forms and imagery. A few examples are shown below - ranging from modern sculpture, mistletoe on bank notes and stamps right through to German WW2 aircraft names.

	Sculptures:   Stainless Steel Mistletoe This stainless steel giant mistletoe structure was made by sculptor Steve Blaylock - who is pictured kissing his wife Rachel underneath it.   It was erected at the Royal Horticultural Society's Harlow Carr Gardens for Christmas 2008.                  The pic is by Richard Doughty and borrowed from http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
	This is 'Gui' (mistletoe in French), a 1976 sculpture by Alexander Calder.   The 3m high structure, made from sheet metal, bolts and paint is pictured at the Storm King Art Center, New York.   It is one of Calder's large-scale free-standing sculptures known as "stabiles".
	Computer Models   3D Virtual Mistletoe Model This image is from Falling Pixel, a commercial website specialising in showcasing 3D imagery/models by various specialists. The Mistletoe Model is by artist moosinthehoos. For more about this fully textured model, with which (if you buy it, and know what to do with it) you can easily add or remove twigs of mistletoe, click here.
	Banknotes and stamps A New Zealand banknote, with a mistletoe of the Loranthaceae mistletoe family depicted on the left.
	Oklahoma stamp and FDC with mtoe A First Day cover of an Oklahoma state flower and bird stamp - showing mistletoe and the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
	WW2 Aircraft This last example isn't exactly art - but is a good example of mistletoe imagery. These pictures show the Mistel - a German composite aircraft developed in the final months of the second world war. It was named after mistletoe because of the 'parasitic' nature of the second plane.
	The aim was to use combat-expired bombers as guided bombs, replacing the crew space with explosive, and using a 'parasitic' fighter plane attached to the top of the bomber to guide the bomb to its target. The fighter would disengage from the bomber when the target was in sight. The scheme was only partially successful, with most Mistel squadrons thwarted by fuel shortages during the final months of the war.

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