muscinae polytrichum fine art print ernst haeckel vintage butterfly Leo Gestel experimented with cubism

Leo Gestel experimented with cubism

Creator: Jaques Fabien Gautier D’Agoty

sculptural and faintly theatrical — was a perfect subject

stairwells and bedrooms

muscinae polytrichum fine art print ernst haeckel vintage butterfly Leo Gestel experimented with cubismLook closely at a patch of moss and a whole forest in miniature appears which is exactly what Ernst Haeckel captured in this plate of Polytrichum, the tall "haircap" mosses. Slender stalks topped with delicate capsules rise across the sheet in fresh, layered greens, the tiny structures magnified and arranged so that something usually crushed underfoot becomes elegant and architectural. The illustration is part of Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in