A work of art can be vibrant, follow organic design principles, or even be admired as a creation. As a complex system of references, the connection between art and biology structures the reception and production of art, creating the illusion of both biological and artistic knowledge. The relevant fields of metaphor, which include terms such as life, generation, creation, cycle, organic, and information, are also part of a nuanced discourse on gender, the effects of which become particularly evident in the transfer between natural sciences and art. Content includes: Myths of creation and generation - Biological metaphors - Wassily Kandinsky's pictorial potential - Concepts of the organism in the works of Paul Klee - The image as a process: Inventions and developments in art.