Copepoda - Calanus horse and the largest of the

and the largest of the New Deal art projects

He also worked extensively in watercolor

he began to work experimentally with letters made of lead and wood

both taught at the Bauhaus school of art

futurism and postimpressionism

Copepoda - Calanus horse and the largest of theThis is the hidden world of the plankton, magnified into art. Copepods the minuscule crustaceans that drift in their billions through the world's oceans are usually invisible to the naked eye, but Ernst Haeckel drew them here as translucent, long antennaed jewels, each one a tiny marvel of engineering set against a dark, deep water background. The plate comes from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's defining series of 100