Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur, 1899-1904
De werkelijkheid van de natuur overstijgt de fantasie.
Tafel 31: Cyrtoidea (Radiolaria)
Haeckel’s specialty as a scientist was microscopic undersea organisms, things like plankton, diatoms, radiolaria, and larval jellyfish, and most of the graphics in the Kunstformen are of such creatures. Haeckel was a huge fan of symmetry and continuity. The Kunstformen are filtered through this attitude. So not only are they real and organic they are hyper-real, beyond organic, a product of imagination and exageration.
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Bron: draves.org/dub/kunstformen.html