Art Forms in Nature: Prints of Ernst Haeckel

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He's really into nature, sci-fi and fantasy video games/books and drawing, so I thought it'd be helpful inspiration for the latter.

I felt like he rendered the natural world as something both amazingly beautiful and terrifying and I loved it. In a beautiful celebration of the natural world, Ernst Haeckel’s Art Forms in Nature is a masterful union of science and art. It's a fabulous book, chock-a-block with exquisite drawings and a treasury of design ideas for anyone involved in any sort of artistic endeavour. This particular edition is a nice large format book and while the colours may be slightly muted on the matte paper, the plates are still gorgeous to look at and quite clear enough for reference, which is why I bought it.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Read this book for the "Reading Genres" book club "Eurobooks" meeting, for which I decided to concentrate on European entomologists. Working in both pencil and watercolour paint, he preserved the complex forms, patterns, and structures of the organisms he discovered.

So many pages sent me off to the web for videos, images, and articles about the bizarre natural beauties.The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. In this book, adopting an uncompromising monistic attitude, he asserted the essential unity of organic and inorganic nature. Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834-1919) was renowned as one of the foremost early exponents of Darwinism.

In particular, many artists associated with Art Nouveau were influenced by Haeckel's images, including René Binet, Karl Blossfeldt, Hans Christiansen, and Émile Gallé. The center and bottom-center images are Desmonema annasethe; the tentacles reminded Haeckel of his late wife's long flowing hair.But the illustrations are other-worldly both in form and in the feeling they give: that rotifers, protozoans and medusae don't just inhabit scarcely-visible parts of our world, no they have their own world which we can barely glimpse into, as different and exotic as any science-fiction artwork. This was really great, but most importantly it will last -- for archiving, referencing, modifications, not just a book that'll sit on the shelf once perused -- all made easy with access to these lithographs.

Some people have bought it to give them inspiration in their drawings, which I'm sure it does, I bought it to see if it would give me inspiration to do some unusual woodworking pieces, it does that too. Psychology he regarded as merely a branch of physiology, and psychical activity as a group of vital phenomena which depend solely on physiological actions and material changes taking place in the protoplasm of the organism in which it is manifested.i'd still like to get a good untrimmed copy to replace the bad one but i've already invoked the replacement mechanism once and i don't want to go through that hassle again. Not so mind-blowing in these days of high-resolution microscopy, but still pretty amazing from a technical drawing viewpoint. There are some works based on corals that remind you immediately of the gene lamps of the oriental tales; the reproduction of the "ostracionte kafferfishe" is so majestic that it resembles some of the decorations in queens and kings crowns. I will mention that different editions or printings of Art Forms of Nature by different publishers (like Dover) only use black and white pictures, not the full-color images. I ran into some of Haekel's work on Pinterest originally, and didn't realise it was available in print.