Melethallia - Algae greenlizard reds and speckled patterns

reds and speckled patterns

and Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Title: "American Flamingo"

Date: 1953

László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school

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