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vorticism (vôr`tĭsĭzəm), short-lived 20th-century art movement related to futurism futurism, Italian school of painting, sculpture, and literature that flourished from 1909, when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's first manifesto of futurism appeared, until the end of World War I. ..... Click the link for more information. . Its members sought to simplify forms into machinelike angularity. Its principal exponent was a French sculptor, Gaudier-Brzeska Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri (äNrē` gōdyā`-bərzĕskä`), 1891–1915, French sculptor. ..... Click the link for more information. . The movement, however, had its largest following in England, where Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and T. S. Eliot wrote about it. BibliographySee W. C. Wees, Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde, 1910–1915 (1972). VorticismLiterary and artistic movement that flourished in England 1912–15. Founded by Wyndham Lewis, it attempted to relate art to industrialization. It opposed 19th-century sentimentality and extolled the energy of the machine and machine-made products, and it promoted something of a cult of sheer violence. In the visual arts, Vorticist compositions were abstract and sharp-planed, showing the influence of Cubism and Futurism. Artists involved in the movement included the poet Ezra Pound and the sculptor Jacob Epstein. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Although Corsillo claims a formal allegiance to Russian Constructivism, the planar austerity and bold machismo of his fragmented architectural forms more strongly recall the pre-World War I Vorticist paintings of Wyndham Lewis, in which buildings--arranged as precisely contoured verticals and diagonals--appear ready to collapse. There is the interim and somewhat vorticist separation between the wedges and the gyro above. Imagine a vorticist take on Superman's crystalline Fortress of Solitude, if it were created out of some jungle verdancy rather than an icy white-blue imaginary. |
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