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biomorph

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bi·o·morph  (b-môrf)
n.
A nonrepresentational form or pattern that resembles a living organism in shape or appearance.
bio·morphic adj.
bio·morphism n.
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I'm sure I saw traces of Picasso in the ironically titled Dream Couple, two extruded biomorphs fit only for each other; in Bugbear, a bald bloke gets down on all fours to throttle what looks for all the world like a doll described in Matisse's distinctive arabesques.
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Throughout the early '80s, Cubist still-life concerns reappeared in paintings depicting coffee cups, shoes, and fragments of domestic interiors, while her Chicago connection insinuated itself in images of wispy, ghostly hands, wraithlike figures, and schematized animalistic biomorphs.
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