noun
- an early 20th-century British art movement characterized by angular, geometric forms and dynamic compositions influenced by Cubism and Futurism
Usage: art history
Examples
- Vorticism emerged in London around 1914 as a radical artistic movement.
- Wyndham Lewis was a leading figure in the development of vorticism.
- The vorticist painters rejected traditional representational art in favor of abstract geometric forms.
- Vorticism influenced British modernist literature as well as visual arts.
- The movement’s magazine ‘Blast’ promoted vorticist ideas and aesthetics.
- Vorticism was short-lived but had a lasting impact on modern British art.