muscinae polytrichum fine art print ernst haeckel seven His plant illustrations

His plant illustrations

Place of origin: Japan

after 1906 Piet Mondrian

the Philippines

Title: Nature

muscinae polytrichum fine art print ernst haeckel seven His plant illustrationsLook 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