Biomorphism
The Biomorphisme is an artistic tendency which appears during first half of the 20th century. It has affinities with the Surréalisme and the Art nouveau. Contrary to the Surrealism, it does not indicate an artistic grouping, it had neither leader nor proclamation.
Works of this tendency have the aspect of the life, they are equipped with vegetable, animal or human forms. Visually the often irregular curves and lines are omnipresent and mark the change; more rigid and orthogonal preceding abstract works being.
Alfred Cort Haddon uses the word “Biomorphisme” for the first time in his work “Evolution in art” published in 1895. The term remained for a long time in a Anglo-American intellectual tradition. Its acceptance in France is slow for various reasons.
The period is saturated with names of movements such as naturalism, impressionism, pointillism, post-impressionism, expressionnism, fauvism, cubism, constructivism, super-realism. When Biomorphisme appears, the neologisms are preferred with the design of new words. One often prefers to employ the “Organic” teme.
Also, one notes a tendency to introspection and with the delimitation of the artistic currents, Biomorphisme seems a form of hybrid or imperfect abstraction.
“Art is a fruit which pushes in the man, like a fruit on a plant or the child in the center of his mother. But while the fruit of the plant takes autonomous forms and never resembles has an airship or has a president out of dress, the artificial fruit of the man shows most of the time a ridiculous resemblance to the aspect of another thing. The reason suggests with the man that it is with the top of nature, that it is the measurement of all things. Thus the man thinks of being able to generate against the natural laws while it creates monsters. (...) I like nature, but not his substitutes. Art illusionist is a substitute of nature. ” (ARP, Hans, In connection with the abstract art, Books of Art, Paris, 1931, n7-8 p.358.)
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