Hexactinellae - Sponge woodcut Title: Portrait of a Lady

Title: Portrait of a Lady

and surrealism

Title: SuprematismCreator: Ilya ChashnikDate: 1920Place of origin: RussiaOriginal from Los Angeles County Museum of ArtLicense: CC0 1

The Amida Falls in the Far Reaches of the Kisokaidō Road (Kisoji no oku Amida-ga-taki)

where he began doing marine paintings

Hexactinellae - Sponge woodcut Title: Portrait of a LadyGlass sponges are nature's master glassblowers, building intricate skeletons from pure silica and this Haeckel plate shows them as the architectural wonders they are. Lattice like tubes and baskets rise across the sheet in pale ivory and gold, their delicate mesh walls drawn with a precision that makes them look almost engineered, like miniature cathedrals from the deep sea. The illustration belongs to Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature),