biomorphic
Resembling living forms
Biomorphic describes forms or designs that resemble living organisms without depicting any specific one.
The term appears most often in art and design contexts: biomorphic sculpture, biomorphic architecture.
A biomorphic shape suggests something organic—curved, irregular, seemingly grown rather than constructed—like the furniture of mid-century modernism or the paintings of Joan Miró.
Curving in flowing turns
- undulatingMoving in waves
- flowingMoving continuously onward
- contourBounding line of shape
- arcCurved line segment
spiral · loop · meander · coil · sweep · swirl · bulbous · rounded
Composed of small units
- skeletalOf or like bones
- botanicalRelated to plants
- marineRelating to the sea
- coralMarine skeletal formation
seedpod · leaf · bone · shell · organism · growth · metamorphosis · mutation
Spanish architectural innovator
- parametricGoverned by set variables
- facadeDeceptive outward appearance
- pavilionOpen recreational structure
- canopyOverhead protective covering
membrane · futuristic · sculptural · free-flowing · biomimetic · skin · envelope · tessellation
Surrealist painter from Spain
- CalderMobile art originator
- NoguchiMidcentury sculptor-designer
- SurrealismArt movement exploring dreams
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
sculpture · modernism · automatism · freeform · Kandinsky · Dalí · avant-garde · expressionism
Movable room objects
- jewelryOrnamental personal accessories
- textileMaterial from woven fibers
- glasswareDrinking containers of silica
- ceramicsHardened clay objects
lighting · pattern · motif · ornamentation · decorative · mid-century · retro-futurism · space-age
sinuous
Curving in flowing turns
- undulatingMoving in waves
- flowingMoving continuously onward
- contourBounding line of shape
arc · spiral · loop · meander · coil · sweep · swirl · bulbous · rounded · amoeboid
cellular
Composed of small units
coral · seedpod · leaf · bone · shell · organism · growth · metamorphosis · mutation · evolution
Gaudí
Spanish architectural innovator
- parametricGoverned by set variables
- facadeDeceptive outward appearance
- pavilionOpen recreational structure
canopy · membrane · futuristic · sculptural · free-flowing · biomimetic · skin · envelope · tessellation · dynamic
Miró
Surrealist painter from Spain
- CalderMobile art originator
- NoguchiMidcentury sculptor-designer
- SurrealismArt movement exploring dreams
abstraction · sculpture · modernism · automatism · freeform · Kandinsky · Dalí · avant-garde · expressionism · nonrepresentational
furniture
Movable room objects
- jewelryOrnamental personal accessories
- textileMaterial from woven fibers
- glasswareDrinking containers of silica
ceramics · lighting · pattern · motif · ornamentation · decorative · mid-century · retro-futurism · space-age · molded
- abstract artabstract art, abstract expressionism, abstraction, expressionism, abstract composition
biomorphicgeometric
Relating to mathematical shapes
angular · rectilinear · crystalline · polygonal · orthogonal
biomorphicindustrial
Of factories and production
constructivist · brutalist · minimalist · architectonic · rationalist
morph, bio, amorphous, morphology, polymorphism, polymorphic, morphological, dimorphism, dimorphic