Biomorphic Art
Abstract art whose shapes resemble living organisms. The shapes are rounded and graceful appearing and have the contours of plants and animals rather than hard-lined geometric forms.
biomorphic - An attribute related to organic, since it describes images derived from biological or natural forms; it was a term frequently used in early- to mid-20th century art.
Biomorphic Form: - An abstract form whose shapes are more organic than geometric, more curvaceous than linear. Much of the work of Hans [Jean] Arp (German-French, 1887-1966) was composed as biomorphic forms Return to top ...
Biomorphic
An abstract form whose contours are related to plant and animal shapes rather than to geometric shapes.
Bird's Eye ...
biomorphic
Echoing biological form. Irregular in shape. [See Judy Chicago's Study for The Dinner Party: Monochrome Plate #2 - Blue in this presentation.]
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Biomorphic
See organic.
Carving
The cutting and chipping away of wood, plaster, stone, or marble to alter the original form.
Also see biomorphic, edge, ellipse, curve, oblong, sphere, and volume.
Throughout the 1940s, Noguchi's sculpture drew from the ongoing surrealist movement; these works include not only various mixed-media constructions and landscape reliefs, but lunars - self-illuminating reliefs - and a series of biomorphic sculptures ...
Mark Rothko took an interest in biomorphic figures, and in England Henry Moore, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Paul Nash used or experimented with Surrealist techniques.
There is much debate over the relevance and significance of his 1980s paintings, many of which became clean, sparse, and almost graphic, while alluding to the biomorphic lines of his early works.
Two important sources for this type of abstract art are: Organic Abstraction (also called Biomorphic abstraction) and Surrealism. Famous examples include several canvases by Kandinsky like Composition No.
Their early works feature pictographic and biomorphic elements transformed into personal code. Jungian psychology was compelling too, in its assertion of the collective unconscious.
This movement could be effected by air or touch, as in the case of Alexander Calder's mobiles: his Arc of Petals (1941) combines subtle lines and biomorphic forms with natural movement to examine the behavior of an object in space.
ORGANIC having a quality that resembles living things, also referred to as
biomorphic, free flowing, non-geometric.
ORIGAMI Japanese art of paper folding.
PAINT apply liquid color to a surface.
The common iconographic vocabulary of the relevant works includes a skull, a bowl, a jug, a massive arrow, lettering, balls, stars, a silhouette of a male figure, a picture or pictures within the picture, irregular biomorphic shapes filled by ...
The aim of the surrealists was to discover the larger reality, or "surreality," that lay beyond tradition. Artists such as Dalí and Magritte were known for their surrealist paintings dominated by biomorphic forms.
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