Vorticism
The Vorticism (English Vorticism , from lat. Vortex "vortex storm") is a direction of the visual arts , in the early 20th century in England parallel to Cubism and Italian Futurism was born. It saw itself in contradiction to academic tradition as well as Impressionism and saw itself expressly as a specifically English contribution to modernity .
history
The painter Roger Fry was an important forerunner of the pre-dizist movement, and with the exhibitions Manet and the Post-Impressionists 1910 and the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition of English, French and Russian Artists 1912, he gave impetus for a reorientation of the visual arts in Great Britain.
Subsequently, Italian futurism had a considerable influence on the development of vorticism ; z. B. on Percy Wyndham Lewis , one of the central protagonists of Vorticism and his home, the Rebel Art Center in London . Wyndham Lewis was one of the first artists to take part in Roger Fry's Omega Workshops , an artist workshop founded in 1913, but he left them after a short while in an argument. BLAST , the organ of the avant-garde movement, only appeared in two editions in July 1914 and July 1915.
Vorticism turned against realistic representations in art, denied their moral mandate and insisted on the autonomy of the work of art. On the other hand, the artists of Vorticism saw themselves in contrast to the art of France and as representatives of an originally Nordic-English art with a pronounced masculine self-image, which u. a. Postulated hardness as a value. They understood their works as a confrontation with the modern "mechanical" industrial world and remained stuck with real models, people and subjects from the big city and industrial production. The war experiences, which were sobering for many artists, may have influenced the fact that the path from abstraction to abstract (not figurative) was not completed and Vorticism hardly survived the First World War .
Museum reception
The Tate Gallery in London showed from June 14th to September 4th 2011 over 100 key works of this art direction.
Artist
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The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel, Spring 1915 , 1961/62, oil on canvas, 183 × 213.5 cm |
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Issue No. 1 published the manifesto signed by eleven artists:
- Richard Aldington
- Malcolm Arbuthnot , inventor of "Vortography"
- Lawrence Atkinson
- Jessica Dismorr
- Henri Gaudier-Brzeska , killed in 1915
- Cuthbert Hamilton
- Wyndham Lewis
- Ezra Pound
- William Roberts
- Helen Saunders
- Edward Wadsworth
Other participants in this movement were: Vanessa Bell , David Bomberg , Alvin Langdon Coburn (inventor of the "Vortoscope"), Thomas Stearns Eliot , Jacob Epstein (known for his Rock Drill sculpture ), Frederick Etchells , Meryl Evans , Ford Madox Ford (sponsor ), Duncan Grant , Thomas Earnest Hulme (fallen in 1917), Jacob Kramer , Paul Nash , Christopher Nevinson , Dorothy Shakespear and Rebecca West .
literature
- Peter Groth: Vorticism in literature, art and science. Studies on the movement of the "men of 1914". Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, Gaudier-Brzeska, TS Eliot and others a. (= Hamburg Philological Studies. Vol. 18). Buske, Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-87118-088-2 (also: Hamburg, University, dissertation, 1972).
- Susanne Kappeler: Vorticism. An English avant-garde between 1913 and 1915 (= European university publications. Series 28: Art history. Vol. 59). Lang, Bern a. a. 1986, ISBN 3-261-03589-7 (also: Zurich, University, dissertation, 1984/1985).
- Karin Orchard (Ed.): Blast. Vorticism. The first avant-garde in England 1914–1918. Ars Nicolai, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87584-996-5 .
Web links
- The Rebel Art Center (English)
- BLAST No. 1
- BLAST No. 2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wyndham Lewis ( October 17, 2003 memento on the Internet Archive ) Tate Gallery
- ↑ The Vorticists Tate Gallery
- ↑ BLAST, No. 1, p. 43 Internet Archive , accessed May 27, 2013.
- ↑ Christoph Wilhelmi: The Vorticists' Circle. In: Christoph Wilhelmi: Artist groups in Western and Northern Europe including Spain and Portugal since 1900. Hauswedell, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-7762-1006-4 , pp. 600–605.
