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 ...

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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 ...

Technically speaking, the art movement known as Vorticism lasted a bare three years (1911–14), until the Great War undermined its social basis and scattered its personnel to the four winds. Conversely ...

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 ...

Across a series of billboards for the latest typeface from F37, Ellen Ling and Craig Oldham honour the city’s local history, community and sense of humour ...

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 ...

Edward Wadsworth made this stunning woodcut of a ship in drydock at Liverpool in 1918. At the time, Wadsworth was still associated with Vorticism, the short-lived British movement which is the subject ...

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 ...