Melethallia - Algae greenlizard reds and speckled patterns

reds and speckled patterns

and his sponge studies are a perfect example of why his work is said to have inspired the structural ornament of Art Nouveau and even early modern architecture

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Title: "American Flamingo"

Date: 1953

Melethallia - Algae greenlizard reds and speckled patternsThis plate turns the humblest of organisms colonial algae into a study of pure, repeating pattern. Ernst Haeckel arranged these microscopic plant forms into rosettes, networks and clusters of soft green and gold, the kind of natural geometry that feels almost like wallpaper or textile design rather than a page from a science book. It is one of the 100 lithographs in Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's hugely influential series. A