🌀#Vorticism🌀
In 1912 to about 1915, Vorticism arose in the UK at the same time as #Futurism arose in Italy. It was founded by Wyndham Lewis as a literary and artistic movement.
Wyndham Lewis - WorkShop - 1912
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Vorticism attempted to relate art to industrialization. It denounced 19th-century sentimentality & revered the energy of the machine and machine-made products.
Wyndham Lewis - Composition - 1914
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“Vorticism promoted something of a cult of sheer violence.”
David Bomberg - The Mud Bath - 1914
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In the visual arts, Vorticist compositions were abstract and sharp-planed, showing the influence of Cubism and Futurism.
‘Torso in Metal from ‘The Rock Drill’’ - Sir Jacob Epstein, 1913-4
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Artists involved in the movement included the poet Ezra Pound and the sculptor Jacob Epstein.
Thomas W Dowdeswell
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Painters included Richard Aldington, Malcolm Arbuthnot, Lawrence Atkinson, Jessica Dismorr, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Cuthbert Hamilton, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, William Roberts, Helen Saunders, Edward Wadsworth
David Bomberg - In The Hold - 1913
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Lawrence Atkinson
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Wyndham Lewis
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Helen Saunders - Study for 'Black & Khaki'
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Jessica Dismorr - ‘Abstract Composition' c.1915
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
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Edward Wadsworth - Composition on Pink Ground, Cones and Spirals [1929-30]
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Reconstruction, 1919 - 20 by Cuthbert Hamilton
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Vortex by Ezra Pound (Poet)
poetryfoundation.org/articles/69480…
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More info about Vorticism: theguardian.com/artanddesign/2… Yes there was a bit of bad blood between the Vorticists & the Futurists.
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📷#Vortigraphy📷
"The abstract images are based on the kaleidoscope & involves clamping three mirrors together so they face one another to form a hollow triangular prism through which objects are placed & photographed."
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📷#vortigraph📷
Alvin Langdon Coburn invented vortography in 1917 and his experiments with the technique lasted only a short while.
Vortigraph of Ezra Pound
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Alvin Langdon Coburn: Portrait
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Please ✔️out #PopArt, #GermanExpressionism, #PreRaphaelites, #Dadaism #Surrealism. #Bauhaus & #AshCanSchool #Fauvism #Futurism #Vorticism
Stay-tuned for #DeStijlism & #Suprematism
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