Hexacoralla II by Ernst Haeckel Material:400g Cotton Canvas but transformed: stripped of texture

but transformed: stripped of texture

It remains one of the foundational documents of Victorian design reform

clean horizon lines

distant hills

overcast sky above

Hexacoralla II by Ernst Haeckel Material:400g Cotton Canvas but transformed: stripped of textureThe second Hexacoralla plate from Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur continues the series with a distinct cast of coral specimens different species, different structural rhythms, equally precise in execution. Where the first plate tends toward dense clustering, this composition breathes a little more, allowing individual organisms to assert their own bilateral and radial geometries. Haeckel's draughtsmanship is at its finest here: each tentacle, polyp