Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Art Organique


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The result was   delete. JohnCD (talk) 13:42, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Art Organique

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Really not seeing much evidence of notability for this concept. Most of the references are just "here's a book about the name I just dropped" or to other Wikipedia articles. Only saw hits in French language where "art organique" was mentioned in passing on Google Books (21st century filtered) rather than as a proper noun. Much as I like the sound of a movement based on "organic art", I'm afraid this article sounds like fabrication to me. Bringing to discussion just in case Art Organique IS actually a thing. Mabalu (talk) 14:25, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:17, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:17, 26 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. This is an essay. The term is a moderately venerable one, coming up for example in Walter Benjamin and this philosophical essay presents a similar conception to that in the article: "L'art organique, en effet, imite moins la nature que sa loi de formation," but it's not so much a movement as a perennial idea - see for example this conference book for various uses of the concept or approach, and I think myself first not of Henry Moore but of art nouveau. I don't find any evidence of its being applied to any coherent set of artists in either French, German, or English. On the other hand we quite properly have organic architecture; in architecture, as this article states, the concept has been fairly well developed and the term is used of an approach or a shared mindset. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:04, 26 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete, unsourced (where it matters) essay, no evidence that this is a term used by critics for any movement (as opposed to referring to 'organic forms', as eg Henry Moore or Art Nouveau).TheLongTone (talk) 18:36, 26 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete, as TheLongTone says, it is effectively unsourced and, in places, makes some farcical claims. Organic architecture is a known phenomenon, but there's certainly no defined movement called Organic Art that I know of. Sionk (talk) 19:30, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
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