Copepoda - Calanus horse both taught at the Bauhaus

both taught at the Bauhaus school of art

Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist

futurism and postimpressionism

living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period

and the largest of the New Deal art projects

Copepoda - Calanus horse both taught at the BauhausThis is the hidden world of the plankton, magnified into art. Copepods the minuscule crustaceans that drift in their billions through the world's oceans are usually invisible to the naked eye, but Ernst Haeckel drew them here as translucent, long antennaed jewels, each one a tiny marvel of engineering set against a dark, deep water background. The plate comes from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's defining series of 100