Biomorphism
バイオモーフィズム／有機的形態 / 1930s–1960s / ongoing / Style / Form and Space
Extends asymmetric, continuous forms suggesting cells, bones, organs and plants into abstraction, furniture, vessels and space.
Asymmetric curves / Cell-like forms / Smooth continuous surfaces / Abstraction from nature
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing historical works and their conditions · Deciding which principles survive translation to today's media
- Type
- Observe the type and composition of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one principle that steers the eye
- Material
- Verify the technique's own materials, process and support
- Caution
- Not just placing round blobs. Derive form from natural structure and contact with the body.
- Further study
- Russel Wright / Isamu Noguchi / organic form