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- Date:
- 1912 - 1915
- Related Artists:
- Ezra Pound
- Wyndham Lewis
- Sir Jacob Epstein
- Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
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Vorticism
literary and artistic movement
Know about Wyndham Lewis illustration for William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens at the Folger Shakespeare LibraryA look at an illustration in the Vorticist style by Wyndham Lewis, c. 1913. The subject is William Shakespeare's play, Timon of Athens.
See all videos for this articleVorticism, literary and artistic movement that flourished in England in 1912β15. 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.
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