biomorphism

This is a biomorphism with an extra serving of the erotic.

He incorporates a design style known as biomorphism to his various designs.

During this time, he moved away from Cubism and started to experiment with Biomorphism.

His later work shows "a kind of classical biomorphism," strange, colorful, suggestive organic forms.

In biomorphism, the organic shapes are free-form and simplified.

Surrealist biomorphism was the most important source for Gottlieb's centralized formats.

For the art movement, see biomorphism.

Kessler makes nature-based paintings that merge geometric elements with biomorphism.

"I see this book, and it's like an epiphany," she recounts, describing biomorphism as "surrealism on legs."

Instead of making recognizable bodies, she opts for a generalized biomorphism that might be animal or vegetable but is in most cases mineral.

For some American artists included in the Washburn show, biomorphism became a primary style; for others, it was a sometime thing.

But the aggregate of undulating free-form shapes also recalls the Surrealists' interest in biomorphism.

Central motifs like Freudian subtext, fetishism, biomorphism and chance were easily translated into three dimensions.

Occasionally biomorphism predominates, as in the delightful "No. 9" (1941), with its gray elephantine shape and three little yellow eyes.

This reminds us that biomorphism came out of Surrealism and, as such, pitted weird biology against mechanized modernity.

But Ferren was an able synthesist, and he arrived eventually at a high-quality, hard-edged biomorphism infused with lively color.

What is clear is that biomorphism and science were inspirations for the British sculptor Julie Nelson.

In his art Matta creates new dimensions in a blend of organic and cosmic lifeforms (see biomorphism).

Biomorphism reshaped earrings following World War II.

The Brooklyn show, which remains on view for a year, places biomorphism in a larger historical context, relating it to organic objects made between 1900 and the 1980's.

That this can also be said about the biomorphism of Arp and Miro, however, is not to put Mr. Sanchez in their company.

The results are abstractions that evoke landscape with rocks, sparse vegetation and clouds and, distantly, the biomorphism of Miro.

That sensibility has also been called zoomorphism or neo-organicism or biomorphism, and reflects a widening interest among designers in borrowing the flowing forms of nature.

Mostly, though, Mr. Evans is a Cubist in the manner of Braque with occasional digressions into biomorphism.

Instead of abandoning biomorphism, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) reworked it into something richer and deeper than its Surrealist sources.