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Looking for Art Forms in Nature

October 05, 2016

We always loved Karl Blossfeldt, the artist who looked for art forms in nature while creating photographic plant-portraits. Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a self -tought photographer celebrated by the Surrealists and early Modernists for his pioneering close-up images of plants and flora. Trained as a sculptor he was also an amateur botanist, fascinated by the underlying structures of nature. Blossfeldt broke down nature to its building blocks: leaves, seeds, flowers and branches. Capturing shape, movement, rhythm and textures. In some cases personality and emotions. "The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form." "Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a... Continue Reading →