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biomorphism en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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.

Translations (2)

pl biomorfizm (surrealist art movement of the twentieth century) · ga bithmhorfacht (surrealist art movement of the twentieth century)