noun
- an artist or writer associated with Vorticism, an early 20th-century British avant-garde movement that emphasized dynamic, angular forms and the energy of modern life
Usage: art history
Examples
- Wyndham Lewis was a leading vorticist who founded the movement in 1914.
- The vorticist painters rejected traditional representation in favor of bold geometric shapes.
- As a vorticist, she created sculptures that captured the speed and power of industrial machinery.
- The gallery featured works by several vorticists from the early 1900s.
- Ezra Pound supported the vorticist movement and contributed to their magazine BLAST.
- The vorticist aesthetic influenced later abstract art movements.