ostraciidae fine art print ernst haeckel famousart Stella believed that every day

Stella believed that every day should "begin and end [with] the painting of a flower

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and it carries a slightly moody

Her poster for the "Sportwoche" (Sports Week) from 1912 is of an astonishing modernity for Austria at that time

Boxfish are the eccentrics of the reef — rigid

ostraciidae fine art print ernst haeckel famousart Stella believed that every dayBoxfish are the eccentrics of the reef rigid, geometric and patterned like something designed rather than evolved and this Haeckel plate makes the most of their charm. Trunkfish and their relatives are arranged across the sheet in yellows, blues and spotted designs, their boxy, armoured bodies giving the composition an almost playful, graphic quality. The illustration comes from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Ernst Haeckel's series of