If you look up “Vorticism” in handbooks of art, you will likely find prominent mention of two things: it was the first attempt on British soil to launch an avant-garde art movement, and it was ...

Tate Britain’s Vorticism exhibition revisits one of English art’s most radical and yet mysterious movements. By Juliet Jacques Tate Britain’s Vorticism exhibition revisits one of English art’s most ...

On the eve of World War I, a band of iconoclastic, London-based artists announced the debut of Vorticism, a movement that rejected “sentimental” Victorian aesthetics in favor of bold abstraction ...

An exhibition on the Vorticism art movement is set to open at Tate Britain in London next week, with branding and exhibition work carried out by Rose Design, inspired by an original Vorticist ...

Following the popularity of cubism, a short-lived movement called vorticism arose. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’re going to capture a vortograph. Use prisms and mirrors to capture a ...

The Crowd (1914-15) by Wyndham Lewis: a typical Vorticist painting “filled with lean, clear-cut vivacity and exhilarating colour” A century ago, rebellious young artists across Europe banded together ...

Notes Published on the occasion of the exhibition Blasting the Future! Vorticism in Britain 1910-1920 held at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, 4 Feb - 18 Apr 2004 and the ...

Spiky and unlikeable, the painter was blighted for years by his flirtations with fascism. By Michael Prodger In the early years of the 1930s the painter, novelist and social theorist Percy Wyndham ...

In the spring of 1914, the poet Ezra Pound described a new British art movement that was “a radiant node” – a “vortex” of Cubism, Futurism and Expressionism. These “Vorticists” were excited by the ...

When it comes to the early history of modern art, London was lamentably behind. In 1910, when Europe was a hotbed of competing '-isms’ that would set the agenda for the most dynamic century in the ...

A vortex, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary I had at school, is a whirlpool, a whirling mass of fluid, fluid in rotating motion, anything whirling that is capable of swallowing all and ...