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 ...
The angular figure in Vorticist composition (Black and Khaki) (around 1915) by Helen Saunders bursts out of the barrel of a gun. Unlike some of the pre-war examples of Vorticism—a short-lived but ...
Researchers analyzing a 1921 canvas by British artist and critic Wyndham Lewis have discovered that the surface layer was painted over an entirely different work. Underneath Lewis’s portrait, ...
‘Atlantic City,’ painted by vorticist Helen Saunders in 1915, has been lost for more than a century. Breaking News Reporter A vorticist painting by a female artist long thought lost has been ...
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 ...
The Tate Britain's new Vorticist show contains one of the strangest and most forceful creations in the history of British art. Rating: * * * Appropriately enough, given that its subject is the ...
David Bomberg Vorticist figure, study for Reading from Torah, with a further composition verso Watercolour over pencil Works on Paper 10.63 x 7.2 in Provenance, Condition and Exhibition History ...
The Halcyon will feature a gallery, music and retail spaces, a restaurant and a bar, and will be housed at the former Post Office at 46 Essex Road, which is being refurbished by interiors group ARA.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. HE IS a dapper man in a brown waistcoat with a subtle check, a crisp white shirt and a blue tie. He arranges to meet you at the rotunda, ...
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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 ...
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