Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:30×40 cm Date: 1930

Date: 1930

the siphonophores are not single animals at all but floating colonies of specialised parts working as one — relatives of the Portuguese man o' war

Creator: Utagawa Hirokage

There is something endlessly satisfying about the spiral of an unfurling fern

Cross strictly carried out the pointillism method of placing color dots next to each other at the beginning

Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:30×40 cm Date: 1930Look 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