🎨 THE ERRATIC GATHERING OF UNDISCIPLINED BIOMORPHIC OBJECTS ✏️ finished
My last post showed a WIP - and some play in Deep Dream and Photoshop. You can check it out HERE. Now I am getting a bit more serious - no digital playground this time.
THE ERRATIC GATHERING OF
UNDISCIPLINED BIOMORPHIC OBJECTS
Finished!
Google spell check is insisting there is no such word as biomorphic, so I had to teach them again. According to the Tate, this is the definition of it:
Biomorphic comes from combining the Greek words ‘bios’, meaning life, and ‘morphe’, meaning form. The term 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.
ERRATIC, GATHERING, UNDISCIPLINED - these words in the title suggest my work-methods. But to quote the Bard: "There is method in his madness"
Though I often say the stuff I create comes from the subconscience, but it is also true that if you take something out, you first have to input. I did this by voracious reading in my younger years. Sometimes I remember what triggered my thoughts. In this case, I think long ago I was fascinated with Dado's Vegetable Police, among other biomorphic works.
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the first one to comment on this when I sent it out on
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Love it, Otto <3 Very strange and unsettling and beautiful and delicate, all at once <3 Love your detailing mastery so much <3
I am glad you like it - thanks. The details are derived from a long practice that goes back decades. They are sort of shortcuts, textures that give it depth, but I would go crazy if I had to painstakingly draw it all out. From random to precise application, I had developed ways to control it.
Google is always trying to tell me words I use, like Chiaroscuro or curvilinear aren't words, but my Art History texts would not agree :)
What an amazing piece and a joy to finish a thing. So many wondrous details you could get lost for hours in them, wonderfuly so.
Resteemed for sure :)
Thank you Donna! Yes, Google has a very limited vocabulary, about on the level of a 5 year old. The translator sucks too, but it got better (still the best on the net, regardless). No matter how often I mark a word to add to the dictionary, next time the computer reboots, I am back to square one.
So elegant, Otto. It looks fertile, like it may give birth to something.
good assessment - it did make me think of Giger after I was done. I didn't aim for it, it just developed.
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First, I adore the title. The piece itself is disturbing, but not in a wholly unpleasant manner, if that makes any sense.
my work is often disturbing, thanks for seeing it in a positive way.
Your world is absolutely awesome. I also have some biomorph drawings, but I'm just a beginner :)
Wow... awesome drawing.
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You bring this to life equisitely, so fractally! I love it!