Urban and or Graffiti Art
Urban or Graffiti/Street Art is art that is related to cities and city life. Often the Artist’s of these styles will live in or have a passion for city life, but nowaday’s these terms are often used to summarize all visual art forms that arise in Urban areas. The main inspiration comes from modern architecture and creative feelings present in urban lifestyles. Urban Artist’s often work in public spaces, but these day’s they can go from traditional street to formal space gallery’s in the blink or an eye. So from wall to canvas at the drop of a hat. This style of art has become an International art form, with many of the artist’s well travelled and with many global contacts. This new form of urban art stems from the initial ground roots of Graffiti culture. Urban artist’s are now using more traditional media, but still using subject matter that deals with contemporary urban culture and political issues, basicly the Urban Art Scene is now popular main street culture.
Vorticism
Vorticism was a short lived modernist movement in British Art around the early 20th century. Partly inspired by Cubism and Futurism, it was Englands first radical avante-garde group and they celebrated the energy and dynamism of the modern machine age. They set about to break deep rooted British traditions in order to inaugurate a New Era.
Vorticism was invented by Wyndham Lewis, other contributing artists to note were Edward Wadsworth and David Bomberg.
Urban Vorticism
Urban vorticism is basicly the style, ideas and dynamism of the British art movement Vorticism that enabled these artist’s to create a new era in art (A form of dynamic cubism). Taking these strong basic creative rules and templating graffiti or street art styles into the production of a new next step style of creativity ie. Urban vorticism, that has it’s roots in something other than street life. A secure and well developed, well expressed creativity namely that of the cubist and futurist art movement. With the most creative and iconic features of a system that imagined the future and it’s energy and used along side the raw potent energy of street art or graffiti into a future cultural fusion of two very deep energy’s, that of the future and the street .
Sources for Images on this page
Graffiti Image links
https://en-gb.facebook.com/GraphotismHQ/
https://www.widewalls.ch/best-graffiti-websites/
https://www.complex.com
https://blog.feedspot.com/graffiti_blogs
Vortist Images and Paintings
Thomas w Dowdeswell tonnas
www.thomasdowdeswell.com/
www.progressivedirectory.com>art>VorticismArt
Edward Wadsworth
www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-wadsworth-2113
Helen Saunders
www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/helen-saunders-1899
Wyndham Lewis
www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/wyndham-lewis-1502