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patrickkapty.bsky.social
A fantastic one of a kind sterling silver and copper wire abstract biomorphic modernist pendant circa 1950.

Available...

www.rubylane.com/item/1879775...

#handmade #oneofakind #pendant #modernistjewelry #wearableart #biomorphicdesign #art #vintagemodern #modernism #moderndesign #modernsilver
A fantastic vintage 1940s 50s one of a kind handmade sterling silver and copper abstract biomorphic modernist pendant. An intricate incredibly unique piece of mid century modernist wearable art jewelry! Complex design with a bar across the top from which hang three rows of cutout shapes in sterling silver that are all attached at backs with copper wire that runs the length of each row. A sort of modernist jewelry 'Rorschach' test that could be interpreted a number of ways. Biomorphic forms are abstract shapes, patterns, or designs inspired by living organisms and natural structures, using fluid, curving lines that suggest plants, animals, or body parts, breaking away from rigid geometry to evoke nature's organic qualities and dynamism in art, architecture, and design. Biomorphic jewelry design is a 20th century phenomenon especially from about 1940 to the 1960s. Measures 2.75" tall by 1.75" widest, and weighs 10.7 grams total. Unmarked, and I'm certain it was originally purchased in an art gallery or fair with accompanying paperwork that would have been lost over the years. Could be worn on a chain, a black cord, or a neck ring depending on the wearer. I can provide a black cord at no extra charge if desired, just let me know when making the purchase. From the estate of a NYC collector who traveled the world for her job in the publishing industry, and who acquired the bulk of her collection in the 1950s/60s/70s eras. Excellent vintage condition.
December 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
jurzi.bsky.social
One of my personal favorites. #Watercolor on paper. #Biomorphic shapes. This was so much fun to paint. Now part of a private art collection. #Jurzi #abstractart
December 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
justinbaileyart.bsky.social
What's up?

I've got proper man flu aka a cold, but it's laid me low so haven't been to the studio this last week. I'd only just started feeling vaguely human again after recovering from Big C. So here's a piece from 2023 - 24 before I got ill. Quite proud of this one.

#art #abstraction #painting
Multi coloured abstract painting with geometric forms and lines converging out of a central area. Has figurative and biomorphic elements. Symmetrical. Use collage as well.
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
patrickkapty.bsky.social
A sculptural one of a kind handmade sterling silver and carved wood biomorphic modernist pendant circa 1950s.

Available...

www.rubylane.com/item/1879775...

#handmade #oneofakind #statementjewelry #pendant #modernistjewelry #modernism #mcm #vintagemodern #wearableart #jewelrydesign #sterling #wood
A sculptural vintage 1950s one of a kind handmade sterling silver and carved dark wood biomorphic modernist pendant. Entirely handmade hand carved dark wood that has been wrapped and pierced with sterling wire that also forms the bail at top! So sculptural and simple, but really makes a statement! Purchased with other pieces of mcm modernist wood jewelry including a signed pendant necklace by NYC artist-jeweler Adda Husted-Andersen, but this pendant is unmarked. Measures 3" long by about 1" at widest. Tested and guaranteed to be as described. From the estate of a NYC collector who travelled the world for her career in publishing and purchased interesting and unique jewelry and objects along the way. Excellent vintage condition.
December 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
mmcarthur.bsky.social
Wassily Kandinsky :
Game of Verticals, 1939

Gouache

Biomorphic forms and a vibrant, almost playful use of color against dark backgrounds. Vertical lines and biomorphic shapes, suggesting a playful "game" of forms suspended in a vast, dark space.

Helsinki, Didrichsen Kunstmuseum

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part of his late, biomorphic-influenced period. The painting, housed at the Didrichsen Art Museum in Helsinki, features a dark, almost black background against which colorful, geometric, and biomorphic shapes are suspended and arranged in a playful, vertical composition.
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
architecture.bsky.social
Redefining candlelight!
These "Soft Solids" by Daydreaming Objects stack repurposed wax modules into glowing "living totems." A stunning fusion of biomorphic design and vintage hardware that lets you build your own ritual. ✨
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November 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
miapaintings.bsky.social
The Competitive Lover https://collections.artsmia.org/art/3742/
Abstraction. Surrealism. Born and trained in Minnesota, Gerome Kamrowski moved to New York City in 1938 and soon joined a group of American artists there who were strongly influenced by many of Surrealism's basic goals. Like their European counterparts, these young Americans explored the depths of the unconscious to help free their creative imaginations. To Kamrowski, Surrealism represented "the integration of the real world and the functional." This 1945 painting comes from a series Kamrowski did of a world of poetic forms that evoke both microscopic views of cells, nerves, and fantastic biomorphic creatures as well as cosmic space. Unlike those artists who only present us with the external structure of things, Kamrowski, as the Surrealist poet André Breton once said, "allows us to be present at their formation."
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
patrickkapty.bsky.social
A biomorphic modernist ceramic platter/artwork by Aviva Margalit of the Ein Hod artist colony in Israel - measures 12" wide!

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www.rubylane.com/item/1879775...

#biomorphic #modernist #ceramic #platter #avivamargalit #einhod #Israel #ceramicart #oneofakind #art #vintagemodern #modernism
A biomorphic modernist vintage 1950s handmade studio pottery abstract design tray/artwork by ceramicist Aviva Margalit of the Ein Hod colony in Israel. Ein Hod became an artists' colony in 1953. The driving spirit behind the project was Marcel Janco, an acclaimed Dada artist, who kept the village from being demolished by the security forces and convinced the government to let him build an artists' colony there instead. In 1957, in close proximity to one another, Itche Mambush and his wife Aviva Margalit opened pottery workshops in Ein Hod Artists Village, see my last photo for a short biography of the artist from the Information Center for Israeli Artists. Ten Ein Hod residents have won the Israel Prize, awarded annually on Israel Independence Day, including Genia Berger, one of the founders of the colony who won the prize in 1953, Zahara Schatz, for painting and sculpture in 1955, and Marcel Janco, for painting in 1967. According to Robert Nechin, who lives in the village, the artists working there today "are fully aware of the illustrious example of these great artists and scholars, who lived and are still living among them. This exceptional tray measures 12" across by 9.75" tall by 1.5" high at the rim. Signed at back as shown in the photos, "Margalit Ein-Hod Israel". Excellent vintage condition.
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
woolie.meowmeow.city
I did not know I needed a futuristic biomorphic Soviet steam locomotive in my feed today, but here we are.
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
aiccontemporary.bsky.social
The Plough and the Song https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16964/
Born in Turkish Armenia, Arshile Gorky immigrated to the United States in the 1920s and became an influential member of the New York art scene. Profoundly interested in avant-garde European art, he experimented with a variety of styles. Young artists working in New York were particularly stimulated by the European Surrealists, many of whom moved to the city before and during World War II and whose circle Gorky joined. The 1940s, especially the years 1944–47, marked the creation of his most important work, produced in a kind of stream of consciousness or “automatic” manner of painting. The Plough and the Song reflects the artist’s indebtedness to the lyrical Surrealism of Joan Miró, but the sketchy handling of paint, translucent color, and tumbling pile of shapes are hallmarks of Gorky’s mature work. A delicate contour line delineates the biomorphic forms in the center of the composition, in marked contrast to the loose brushwork that defines the background. The title signals Gorky’s nostalgia for his heritage, as the artist wrote in 1944: “You cannot imagine the fertility of forms that leap from our Armenian plows. . . . And the songs, our ancient songs of the Armenian people, our suffering people. . . . So many shapes, so many shapes and ideas, happily a secret treasure to which I have been entrusted the key.” Deeply earthbound and poetic, The Plough and the Song is at once a still life, a landscape, and a fantasy. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis L. Coburn Fund
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
iplayitofflegit.bsky.social
Portland Art Museum had a Grand Opening on Thursday and through the weekend admission is free. If they are under capacity you don't need advance tickets. Highly recommended.

The work of Rick Bartow really stood out to me.

#photography #fujifilm #pdx
A man sits in a large red chair in the new Mark Rothko Pavilion, a new structure that links both the North and South wings of the museum through the fourth floor. Others enjoy an outdoor seating area overlooking the park. Impressionist painting of the Santiam River from around 1910 by Charles C. McKim. Oil on canvas. A painting by Rick Bartow. Sing Crow, 2014. Acrylic on canvas. A figure in a contorted position transforms from a crow into a human. An immersive video art piece by Pipilotti Rist named 4th Floor to Mildness. Participants lay in beds and look up at video projections displayed in "two biomorphic shaped screens".
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
mmcarthur.bsky.social
The Travelling Performers, 1926 Oil on canvas Titre inconnu (noyer indifférent), 1929, Oil on canvas 92.2 × 73.2 cm Hilti Art Foundation, Schaan Titre inconnu, from Tanguy's early Surrealist phase, is populated by enigmatic, unfamiliar figurations. They are clearly distinguishable but unidentifiable, suggesting both inorganic and organic origins, coming perhaps from the depths of the oceans, the expanses of the desert, or the infinity of the universe. The shapes could as easily represent the beginnings of natural history as the catastrophic end of civilization. The four largest of them, casting shadows from an invisible source of light, have congregated around a patch of fog rising in delicate tendrils. Both fog and figurations are seen against a dark ground whose relief-like surface is broken by spectral, white horizontal bands that fade into the immeasurable, pitch-black depths of space. We gaze upon an alien, nonhuman, and yet disconcertingly real universe that is in the process of becoming or dying, buffeted by the primeval clash between light and dark. The Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung, who acquired Tanguy's painting the year it was created, discusses it in detail in his book Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky (1979, first published in German in 1958). He associates it with bleakness, coldness and human detachment, with cosmic inhumanity and endless abandonment, additionally interpreting it as an example of the loss of beauty and meaning in contemporary art, which has thrown human beings back on themselves as viewing subjects. However, the absence of explicit meaning, as demonstrated by Titre inconnu, can also lead to associations and reactions that yield illuminating insights into the world of darkness, very much in the spirit of Surrealism. ~ Uwe Wieczorek "Yves Tanguy, the painter of gruesomely elegant entities in the air, in the depths of the earth and the seas, [...] my lovely friend." ~ André Breton Through Birds, Through Fire but Not Through Glass, 1943 Oil on canvas 39 1/2 × 34 3/4 in. (100.3 × 88.3 cm) The Minneapolis Institute of Art Considered to be Tanguy's finest work from his first American period of 1939 to 1945, the Institute's painting is characterized by bright colors and mysterious, biomorphic forms. In this surreal otherworldly landscape, Tanguy presents us with an ultra-realistic depiction of the unreal by employing a deliberate, precise method of painting. Inexplicable titles, often evocative of a dream state, were used by Surrealists to compel the viewer to search for a deeper meaning or truth in the artwork. Sans titre - Untitled Gouache n.d.
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
seamusaloysius.bsky.social
Salvador Dalí
"The Birth of Liquid Desires" (1932)
oil / collage on canvas | 96.1 x 112.3 cm (37 7/8 x 44 1/4 in).
Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy.
#ArtSky #Dalí
"The Birth of Liquid Desires" by the Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. It was painted between 1931 and 1932 using oil and collage on canvas. The work is a striking example of Surrealist art, full of subconscious imagery related to the artist's psychological conflicts and obsessions, particularly sexuality and sexual desire. The large biomorphic structure dominates the composition and suggests various forms, including a violin or the weathered rock formations of Port Lligat, Spain. The central figure is an androgynous creature, which merges the figures of the father, son, and mother in a grotesque dream image. The painting is part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy.
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
patrickkapty.bsky.social
Torso-Kore
bronze
1958
Jean (Hans) Arp
French, born Germany (Alsace), 1886–1966

#modern #art #sculpture #biomorphic #jeanarp #hansarp #modernart #modernsculpture #torso #bronze #dated1958
#mcm #europeanmodern #dada #biomorphism
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
robertmotherwell.bsky.social
Wall Painting with Stripes https://www.artic.edu/artworks/146986/
Of all the New York School painters, scholar and artist Robert Motherwell aligned himself most closely with modern European art and literature. An early painting by Motherwell, Wall Painting with Stripes fuses the geometric rigor found in the art of Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso with an organic or biomorphic abstract language that is reminiscent of the imagery employed by Surrealists Max Ernst and Joan Miró. Although signed and dated 1944, this painting shows signs of having been altered over time by the artist. Pentimenti (evidence of previous compositions), including a complex network of lines that were simplified into egg-shaped forms and bulging curves, are visible underneath the vertical bands of ocher and white paint. Motherwell once wrote, “My pictures have layers of mistakes buried in them—an X-ray would disclose crimes—layers of consciousness, of willing.” Restricted gift of Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman in honor of her grandchildren, Ellen Steinberg and Peter Steinberg; gift of Lannan Foundation
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
brett-baudin.bsky.social
#aiart #promptshare
Title: Sahara's Indigo Dream
Style: Saharan cultural haute couture, cinematic fashion photography, landscape-integrated editorial
Prompt in ALT
An aerial drone photograph captures a lone figure in voluminous indigo silk robes standing atop a Saharan dune during golden hour, shot from 120 meters above with telephoto compression. The figure wears authentic Tuareg-inspired tagelmust draping constructed from haute couture silk with intricate gold thread constellation embroidery, topped by a sculptural headpiece that merges traditional cheche elements with hammered brass architectural forms gleaming like a crown. The luxurious fabric billows dramatically in the wind, creating fluid biomorphic shapes that contrast beautifully against the static geometric patterns of endless sand ridges. Pure golden backlight from the sun kissing the horizon creates a luminous rim around the model's silhouette, while the pale sand acts as a natural reflector, casting the scene in warm amber tones that emphasize the epic scale and timeless serenity of this nomadic haute couture moment.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
remediosvaro.bsky.social
Weird life
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19167
"Weird Life" by Remedios Varo presents a surreal, dreamlike scene featuring biomorphic forms and vibrant colors, characteristic of her signature style. The artwork encapsulates Varo's fascination with mystical themes and the exploration of inner consciousness, inviting viewers into an enigmatic world.
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
bpal.bsky.social
On Saturday we return to @oddmartmn.bsky.social in Minneapolis with a treasure chest full of perfume oils, nail polish, beard oils, and other fine potions for you to try!

(Including the Tongue Wall atmosphere & linen spray, natch)
A still image from the film Dr. Caligari (1989) which features a woman stretching her tongue lasciviously toward a mouth and tongue that is straining to meet it, despite being embedded in a strange, fleshy, biomorphic surface. Test on the image reads: "NOVEMBER LUNACY at Odd Mart, Saturday Nov. 8 3-6pm. Fine Fragrance sampling & shopping, monthly event!"
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
mmcarthur.bsky.social
Wassily Kandinsky :
Comets, 1938

Lithograph | 13.5 x 19.75 in

Created for Verve Magazine, 1938

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Kandinsky created Comets in 1938 for Verve Magazine. During this time Kandinsky had fled Germany after a Nazi smear campaign against the art school Bauhaus, whete he was teaching. While in Paris, Kandinsky began to feel increasingly isolated and underwent a noticeable shift in his art style. His work began to express more biomorphic shapes and elements and take on softer tones. During this time many of his works often convey a more peaceful, listless tone.
November 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
themightyduck.bsky.social
Dive into a dreamlike calm! 🌳✨ A biomorphic grove of bulbous trees with poured-resin trunks and inflated canopies in turquoise, coral, and lemon. Glossy surfaces and syrupy tendrils drip into a calm turquoise canal that mirrors the candy-smooth forest. 🌿💖🌊

#aiart
November 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
inku1997.bsky.social
Day 28, trying minimalism

#Ink #Inktober #Minimalism #Biomorphic #Art #Artist #DigitalArt
October 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
fhundertwasser.bsky.social
470A Relations of a Spider https://www.wikiart.org/en/friedensreich-hundertwasser/relations-of-spider
"Relations of a Spider" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser features vibrant, organic shapes interwoven with fluid lines, reflecting his fascination with nature and architecture. The artwork exhibits Hundertwasser's trademark colorful spirals and biomorphic forms, emphasizing his belief in harmony between humans and their environment.
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social
Surrealist Landscape or Red Rock Variation - Masonic Hospital - U of M – Minneapolis https://collections.artsmia.org/art/126119/
abstract image; biomorphic forms with red forms at top and vertical golden brown forms at bottom; horizon line with red dotted "sky" and green shaded "ground" Minnesota native George Morrison was a member of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) people of the Grand Portage Reservation. Early in his career, he was active in the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, a mid-20th-century movement of avant-garde artists who saw abstraction as the essential vehicle for conveying intense emotion and exploring spirituality and the unconscious through color, form, space, and gesture. Morrison later turned to nature and the earth for inspiration and subject matter, producing paintings, wood collages, drawings, rubbings, and prints that embodied the spiritual concerns of his Native American culture. Many of his later works feature highly abstracted landscapes with high horizon lines and a flattened perspectives, a signature motif that embodied Morrison’s spiritual and symbolic methodology. Though his sculptures and collages could be monumental in scale, Morrison often chose to produce modestly-sized works that could be completed quickly. Indeed, a number of these smaller works were part of his extended series of “surrealist landscapes,” dreamlike depictions of land and sky that resulted from automatic drawing techniques he adopted as a way to tap into the mind’s subconscious.
September 3, 2024 at 7:49 AM
saturnexalted.bsky.social
Literally every "selling point" on the website just screams "We have read and watched all the sci-fi, and we have no media literacy at all!"

I also can't stop seeing the ways the web designer has ZERO concept of usability for people with any vision issues, which tracks for this whole project
Screenshot from the Clone website, showing what looks like a close up of white vertebrae on a white background. The selling point it is highlighting reads: Better. Biomorphic design. Straight out of science fiction. Screenshot from the Clone website, showing what looks like a close up of white wires or maybe clear, thin tubes on a white background. The selling point it is highlighting reads: Faster. Myofibers that contract faster than human, skeletal muscle fibers. Screenshot from the Clone website, showing what looks like a close up of white robotic hand HOLDING A FUCKING DRILL on a white background. The selling point it is highlighting reads: Stronger. Human-level strength. Even in the fingers. Screenshot from the Clone website, showing a close up of white plastic? silicone? with black insets or perhaps it's just large holes in whatever structure they're showing? I don't know. This website is abhorrent and has white text on white backgrounds all over the place. The selling point it is highlighting reads: Tougher. Designed for durability. Above all else.
February 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
betteburgoyne.bsky.social
biomorphic drawing on pink paper featuring an irregular structure of twig-like lines
April 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM