1915 (ca.), Wyndham Lewis, Workshop -- Tate Britain (London)
From the museum label: Vorticism was a short-lived but radical movement founded by Wyndham Lewis in London just before the First World War. It argued for a kind of art that responded to the energy of the modern world. Here, Lewis celebrates the industrial landscape with angles and diagonal lines. Although Lewis believed in the potential of modern machines, many of his contemporaries were disillusioned by the mechanised destruction witnessed during the First World War. He was unable to revive the movement after the war ended. This may also have been exacerbated by Lewis's increasingly extreme views as an early supporter of Adolf Hitler.
1915 (ca.), Wyndham Lewis, Workshop -- Tate Britain (London)
From the museum label: Vorticism was a short-lived but radical movement founded by Wyndham Lewis in London just before the First World War. It argued for a kind of art that responded to the energy of the modern world. Here, Lewis celebrates the industrial landscape with angles and diagonal lines. Although Lewis believed in the potential of modern machines, many of his contemporaries were disillusioned by the mechanised destruction witnessed during the First World War. He was unable to revive the movement after the war ended. This may also have been exacerbated by Lewis's increasingly extreme views as an early supporter of Adolf Hitler.