Wednesday 16 May 2012

Vorticism: A Brief History

Vorticism developed after Cubism and Futurism, and flourished briefly just before the First World War.  Wyndham Lewis was the founder of this avant-garde movement, which celebrated industrialization and the modern machine age with its powerful abstract representations.  It was given its name by Lewis's friend, the American poet Ezra Pound. 

 
by The Modern Vorticist