2. VORTICISM
VORTICISM IS A SHORT-LIVED MODERNIST MOVEMENT IN
BRITISH ART AND POETRY IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
THE VORTICIST MOVEMENT STARTED TO COME TOGETHER
IN ABOIT OCTOBER 1913,INSPIERD IN PART BY TWO
IMPORTANT FURTURISTART EXHIBITIONS HELD IN
LONDON,IN 1912 AND 1913.
THE NAME VORTICISM WAS GIVEN TO THE MOVEMENT BY
EZRA POUND IN 1913
3. CHARACTERISTICS OF VORTICISM
• COMBINES THE GEOMETRICAL FRAGMENTATIONOF CUBISM
WITH FUTURIST-STYLE MACHINE-LIKE IMAGERY.
• A GENUINELY INDEPENDENT ALTERNATIVE TO BOTH CUBISM
AND FUTURISM.
• IT LACKED LIFE WHEN COMPARED TO FUTURIST ART.
• MODERN INDUSTRIALIZATIONWAS THE KEY MOTIF OF
VORTICISM.
4. ARTWORKS
WYNDHAM LEWIS (1882-1957)
WYDHAM WAS AN ENGLISH PAINTER AND AUTHER.
HE WASTHE CO-FOUNDEROF VORTICISM.
HE EDITED THE LITERARY MAGAZINE OF THE VORTICIST,
BLAST.
HE DEVELOPED THE STYLE OF GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION.
5.
6. DAVID BOMBERG
(1890-1957)
HE WAS AN ENGLISH PAINTER.
BOMBERG INFLUENCED CUBISM AND FUTURRISM.
HE USED LIMITED NUMBER OF STRIKING COLORS,
TURNINGN HIMANS INTO SIMPLE SHAPES.
HIS WORK WAS BASED ON DYNAMIC ANGILAR
REPRESENTATIONSOF THEHIMAN FORM.
7.
8. E McKNIGHT KAUFFER
HE WAS AN AMRICAN-BORN ARTIST NOTED
FOR HIS AVANT GARDE GRAPHIC DESIGN
AND POSTER ART, ESPECIALLY IN BRITAIN.
THE POSTERS SPAN MANY STYLES: MANY
SHOW ABSTRACT INFLIENCES, INCLUDING
FUTURISM, CUBISM, AND VORTICISM.
