Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:70×100 cm masculine elegance that resists trends

masculine elegance that resists trends

some of whom were his students

The image belongs to Kunstformen der Natur

a precursor of contemporary science fiction cinema

and became a pupil of the painter and engraver Jacob Christoph Le Blon

Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:70×100 cm masculine elegance that resists trendsLook 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