biomorphism

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ -morphism or biomorph +‎ -ism. First used in 1936 by Alfred H Barr, Jr. (1902-1981), art historian.

Noun

biomorphism (uncountable)

  1. (art) A surrealist art movement of the twentieth century that focuses on the power of natural life and uses organic shapes, with shapeless and vaguely spherical hints of the forms of biology.

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