Hexacoralla II by Ernst Haeckel Shiro Kasamatsu Van Gogh's signature broken brushwork

Van Gogh's signature broken brushwork energizes every surface

the luminous colour and characteristic surface texture of Klimt's original are preserved with archival clarity

that holds the picture together

light-filled brushwork that defines French Impressionism at its most joyful

botanical detail exactly as it was drawn

Hexacoralla II by Ernst Haeckel Shiro Kasamatsu Van Gogh's signature broken brushworkThe second Hexacoralla plate from Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur continues the series with a distinct cast of coral specimens different species, different structural rhythms, equally precise in execution. Where the first plate tends toward dense clustering, this composition breathes a little more, allowing individual organisms to assert their own bilateral and radial geometries. Haeckel's draughtsmanship is at its finest here: each tentacle, polyp