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Biomorphic 

In painting and sculpture biomorphic forms or images are ones that, while abstract, nevertheless refer to, or evoke, living forms such as plants and the human body. The term comes from combining the Greek words bios, meaning life, and morphe, meaning form. Biomorphic seems to have come into use around the 1930s to describe the imagery in the more abstract types of Surrealist painting and sculpture particularly in the work of Joan Miró and Jean Arp (see automatism). Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth also produced some superb biomorphs at that time, and later so did Louise Bourgeois.
 

Dame Barbara Hepworth, Two Forms, 1933
Dame Barbara Hepworth
Two Forms
1933
 
Joan Miró, Woman, 1949
Joan Miró
Woman
1949
 
Louise Bourgeois, Avenza, 1968-9, cast 1992
Louise Bourgeois
Avenza
1968-9, cast 1992