Word: vorticist
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...Futurism itself was pretty much over by 1915 - the end point of the show. Briton Christopher Nevinson painted vorticist soldiers, Italian Gino Severini created some fractured war scenes, like Red Cross Train Passing a Village (1915), and the Russian Kazimir Malevich's figures seem constructed out of shell cases. This show is a chance to appreciate these artists and their youthful enthusiasm, before the first mechanized war crushed both...
...Jewish baker, Kossoff grew up in the East End of London. After being discharged from the army at the end of World War II, he studied under David Bomberg -- once a prodigy of the vorticist movement but by 1947 a forgotten man, a failure, whose stature as a painter is only now being recognized. Bomberg gave Kossoff two things: first, a grounding in the relations between modernism and the past, based on unrelenting drawing from life, which has practically been wiped out of art training in the past 20 years; and second, patience, a sense of endurance...
...look at modern art when he was there, although there are some mild homages to it in his later work: the purposeful, bland, geometric rotundity of skirts and cows' backsides bears some likeness to the derivations from Léger one sees in the English vorticist William Roberts. His addiction was to the consoling udder, not the maddening verre d'absinthe...
Historically Gaudier Brzeska (1891-1915), was the Vorticist and precocious member of the London circle of U.S. Eloit and T.E. Hulme. Wyndam Lewis and Ezra Pound. The Vorticists took their name with the idea that all art must originate in a state of emotional vortex and their aim, according to Pound was to establish what we consider to be characteristic in the in the consciousness and form content of our time. Henri Gaudier left his established family when they banned his Platonic love. Sophie Brzeska--a Polish writer twice his age--from their estate. He then adopted her name...
...born in Maine, in 1886. Precocious, at 15 he studied art at London's Slade School, few years later philosophy under Bergson at the College de France. In 1914 he exhibited paintings in London that led Ezra Pound to hail him as leader of a new school: Vorticism. Vorticist Lewis, together with Pound, edited two numbers of a vitriolic review, Blast, before he enlisted with the Royal Artillery in the War. Since then, an enfant terrible in earnest, he has written many biting books: Tarr, The Art of Being Ruled, Time and the Western Man, The Childermass...