Ernst Haeckel

A German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist 

(February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919)

"Not just a book of illustrations but also the summation of his view of the world."

        

 

Kunstformen der Natur is a book of lithographic and autotype prints by German biologist Ernst Haeckel. Originally published in sets of ten between 1899 and 1904 and collectively in two volumes in 1904, it consists of 100 prints of various organisms, many of which were first described by Haeckel himself. Over the course of his career, over 1000 engravings were produced based on Haeckel's sketches and watercolors.

Lichtenstein: A Retrospective

Simple as it is

Do what you love and focus on what you are doing.

But...

Why does it become so difficult for us now?

Chaos is the New Order

Avalanche


The project was realized in a retail in Dortmund. The image of an avalanche was used to compare my installation and my way of working to the transformation of the surrounding environment. The distortion began at one point and then suddenly changed and rearranged the whole space. In combination with the outer appearance of the building, it all appeared folded and wrapped around itself. Inside the avalanche, I used common materials, like wallpapers, cardboard, carpet and mirrors, to relate to everyday spaces. The basement housed another work. Pictures of the room in its former state were projected on an installation composed of fragmented, origami-like shapes. Visitors could control the projections through sound and, in this way, move the space and alter its scale.

a fixed draft from Everything and Me on Vimeo.

German artist Clemens Behr (Born 20.10.1985 in Koblenz, Germany) uses the simplest materials to create complex ephemeral architectures, which fill gallery spaces with origami-like structures. Working with recycled materials and basic geometric forms, Behr dreams up installations that result in subtle confusions between 2D painting and 3D objects. Not content with the confines of gallery spaces, Behr has taken his work into the public sphere, building peculiar appendages in metro cars and erecting detailed miniature cities on street corners. At their best, his installations are feats of optical trickery, disorienting architectures reminiscent of German expressionist film sets. At their worst, they look like a creative kid ran amok with a bunch of moving boxes and a vat of paint. Behr belongs to a crop of artists, who take inspiration from childlike forms of expression, a naive, innocent aesthetic befitting a generation of Peter Pans.

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Whose hair? by Christina Christoforou

Christina Christoforou is a London-based illustrator and artist.

Her work often features animals, spaceships, and monsters, but her main focus is people.
She is not interested in representing the world as it is though, so the people who feature in her narratives are often disguised, introducing an element of play, which is often combined with a darker, more serious edge.
Her works with biros, Tipp-ex, colour pencils and newspaper cut-outs.

This book contains over 200 original, hand-drawn illustrations of the hairstyles of the rich and famous, from politicians to film stars, dictators to chefs. The meticulously drawn illustrations will show only the hair, leaving you to guess the celebrity and draw the face.