Darwin art

From today’s NYTimes, Darwin’s Wake Splashed Artists, Too and the accompanying slideshow profiles the exhibit Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts at the Yale Center for British Art.

… you may not learn anything new about his theories, but you will come to see differently, or at least begin to understand that our ways of seeing have evolved because of the power of his vision.

“Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds,” by Martin Johnson Heade, 1871.