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From the time of his premedical studies Isamu Noguchi had been fascinated by biological forms, and he would employ biomorphic imagery throughout his career. His first abstract sculptures of 1927-28, created after working with Constantin Brancusi in Paris, were characterized by both organic and geometric forms. When he returned to abstraction in the 1940s Noguchi was highly influenced by the biomorphic imagery of European Surrealism, most evidently in the sculpture of interlocking elements that brought him special recognition within the emerging New York School. He used similar forms in stage sets designed for dancer Martha Graham . Biomorphism also dominated Noguchi's furniture designs of this period, and he continued to employ biomorphism in his landscape projects of the 1950s and 1960s.
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