plant as architectural structure
“Art can only derive fresh strength and stimulation for healthy development from Nature’s eternal and unstoppable fountain of youth from which all cultures have evolved. The plant may be described as an architectural structure, shaped and designed ornamentally and objectively. Compelled in its fight for existence to build in a purposeful manner, it constructs the necessary, practical units for its advancement, governed by the laws familiar to every architect, and combines practicality and expedience in the highest form of art. Not only, then, in the world of art, but equally in the realm of science, is Nature our best teacher.”—Karl Blossfeldt in “Wundergarten der Natur” (Magic Garden of Nature)
examples of Karl Blossfeldt’s photographs from the Wonder of Nature”
www.artphotogallery.org/02/artphotogallery/photographers/...
plant as architectural structure
“Art can only derive fresh strength and stimulation for healthy development from Nature’s eternal and unstoppable fountain of youth from which all cultures have evolved. The plant may be described as an architectural structure, shaped and designed ornamentally and objectively. Compelled in its fight for existence to build in a purposeful manner, it constructs the necessary, practical units for its advancement, governed by the laws familiar to every architect, and combines practicality and expedience in the highest form of art. Not only, then, in the world of art, but equally in the realm of science, is Nature our best teacher.”—Karl Blossfeldt in “Wundergarten der Natur” (Magic Garden of Nature)
examples of Karl Blossfeldt’s photographs from the Wonder of Nature”
www.artphotogallery.org/02/artphotogallery/photographers/...