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Noun

1. 1
   A surrealist art movement of the twentieth century that focuses on the power of natural life and uses organic shapes, with shapeless and vaguely spherical hints of the forms of biology. uncountable

Etymology

From bio- + -morphism or biomorph + -ism. First used in 1936 by Alfred H Barr, Jr. (1902-1981), art historian.

Related phrases

art movement

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