My word for today: Biomorphism
Biomorphism: meaning, creating artistic or design elements on naturally occurring patterns or shapes reminiscent of nature and living organisms.
Detail under-painting of one of my current works.
Biomorphism: meaning, creating artistic or design elements on naturally occurring patterns or shapes reminiscent of nature and living organisms. In art, its art that focuses on the power of natural life and uses organic shapes, with shapeless and vaguely spherical hints of the forms of biology. Biomorphism has strong connections with Surrealism and Art Nouveau. It appeared both as subject matter and as procedure in the figurative paintings of many surrealist painters. Biomorphism reflects the tendency to favor ambiguous and organic shapes. Anatomy, plants, bodies of water, and astronomy inspire paintings, reliefs, and sculptures. ( Surrealism elevated magic and the transformational process of metamorphosis and hybridization. Picasso’s use of metamorphosis influenced Surrealism in the 1920s, and it appeared both as subject matter and as procedure in the figurative paintings of Leonora Carrington and in the more abstract, automatic works of André Masson.
Metamorphosis attested to the power of the individual imagination to transcend reality and reason in favor of the marvelous. American Indian and Oceanic cultures and their myths provided models of uncensored expression and images of human-plant metamorphosis. Drawing on non-Western cultures, alchemy, and other occult phenomena, Max Ernst felt that the artist must regain a mythic, spiritual harmony with nature lost in Christianity, Western rationalism, and technology.
Victor Brauner and Wilfredo Lam thrived on the occult and the mystical. Brauner’s art reflects a fusion of wide-ranging world cultures, mythologies, and religious beliefs. While focusing primarily on figuration – whether human, animal, or mythological – the works create an intricate lexicon of symbolic forms.) - https://museum.imj.org.il/.../dada.../Biomorphism.asp
My own experiments in my under-paintings to stimulate this ' meta-biomorphizing muscle, (above)
Hi!, I am Stephanie Tihanyi, an artist-painter and illustrator. Welcome to my blog. This is where I write about my work, influences, exhibitions and latest news.
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