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    Vorticism was an early 20th century avant-garde art movement in Britain that combined elements of Cubism and Futurism. Initiated in 1913 by Wyndham Lewis, Vorticism featured hard-edged geometrical forms and linear styles to depict the energy of modern industrial life. Key characteristics included clear forms, unmodulated color independent of representation, and reflection of machinery, factories, and modern music in works by Lewis, Ezra Pound, Jacob Epstein, David Bomberg, Edward Wadsworth, and William Roberts. The movement held its first and only exhibition at the Doré Gallery in London in 1915.

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    Vorticism was an early 20th century avant-garde art movement in Britain that combined elements of Cubism and Futurism. Initiated in 1913 by Wyndham Lewis, Vorticism featured hard-edged geometrical forms and linear styles to depict the energy of modern industrial life. Key characteristics included clear forms, unmodulated color independent of representation, and reflection of machinery, factories, and modern music in works by Lewis, Ezra Pound, Jacob Epstein, David Bomberg, Edward Wadsworth, and William Roberts. The movement held its first and only exhibition at the Doré Gallery in London in 1915.

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    Vorticism was an early 20th century avant-garde art movement in Britain that combined elements of Cubism and Futurism. Initiated in 1913 by Wyndham Lewis, Vorticism featured hard-edged geometrical forms and linear styles to depict the energy of modern industrial life. Key characteristics included clear forms, unmodulated color independent of representation, and reflection of machinery, factories, and modern music in works by Lewis, Ezra Pound, Jacob Epstein, David Bomberg, Edward Wadsworth, and William Roberts. The movement held its first and only exhibition at the Doré Gallery in London in 1915.

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    Vorticism

    vorticism
    • (ˈvɔːtɪˌsɪzəm )
    • in British; noun
    an art movement in England initiated in 1913 by Wyndham
    Lewis combining the techniques of cubism with the concern
    for the problems of the machine age evinced in futurism

    • in American; noun
    a movement in English art at the beginning of WWI,
    involving Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Epstein, and others, and
    influenced by cubism and futurism
    (www.collinsdictionary.com)
    CUBISM
    +
    FUTURISM
    =
    VORTICISM
    Percy Wyndham Lewis Ezra Pound
    “vortex” as “the
    point of maximum
    energy”
    BLAST MAGAZINE
    First Exhibiton - June 1915 at the
    Doré Gallery in London
    The second and final edition of
    Blast
    Characteristics
    • to illustrate the dynamism of the modern world
    • a style of clear forms
    • linear and hard edged
    • unmodulated colour that was frequently
    independent of any representational value and
    secondary to the drawing
    • reflected the energy of modern life as manifest in
    machinery, factories and the docks, popular music
    and dance
    “Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain
    pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity
    of outside appearance. The geometrical
    line is something absolutely distinct from
    the messiness, the confusion, and the
    accidental details of existing things.”
    Canon by Helen Saunders, c1915. Illustration: courtesy of
    the estate of Helen Saunders
    Wyndham Lewis
    Timon of Athens (1913) Private Collection
    Workshop (c.1914-15) Tate Collection,
    London
    A Battery Shelled (1919) Imperial War
    Museum, London
    David Bomberg
    Ju-Jitsu (1913) Tate Britain, London
    Sir Jacob Epstein
    Torso in Metal from 'The Rock Drill' (1913-14) Tate
    Collection, London
    Edward Wadsworth
    Abstract Composition (1915) Tate Collection, London
    William Roberts
    The First German Gas Attack at Ypres (1918)
    National Gallery of Canada

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