Wyndham lewis

Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English painter and author. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST. In the years 1913-15 that he developed the style of geometric abstraction for which he is best known today, a style which his friend Ezra Pound dubbed "Vorticism". Lewis found the strong structure of Cubist painting appealing, but said it did not seem "alive" compared to Futurist art, which, conversely, lacked structure…

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IWM North hosts the UK’s largest retrospective of Lewis’s work, featuring more than 160 artworks, books, and journals from major international collections

Wyndham Lewis created engrossing illustrations of Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens." He had lots in common with the play's protagonist.

Percy Wyndham Lewis was a founder of an art movement in Great Britain that was a rival to Futurism in Italy – Vorticism.

PERCY WYNDHAM LEWIS (1882-1957) The Vorticist - drawing - Southampton

Percy Wyndham Lewis A Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, ‘Froanna’ (Gladys Anne Hoskins 1900-1979) America, 1940 Pencil and coloured chalks on blue paper 48.3 x 31 cm This portrait of the artist’s wife Gladys Hoskins (1900-1979), known as Froanna, was made in America where Lewis spent the war years. The artist bought the distinctive blue ... Read more

Lewis was born on his father's yacht off the Canadian coast. His father was American, and his mother British. The family moved to England in 1888 and…

David Moore was Australia’s most renowned and widely travelled documentary photographer. He began working as a photographer in 1947 in the commercial advertising studio of Russell Roberts. Between 1948 and 1951 he assisted Max Dupain, and began to develop his ...

When Americans find themselves thinking about Art Deco portraits, I suspect the work of Tamara de Lempicka comes to mind first. But the English just might be more likely to conjure paintings and drawing by Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957). The above link to Lewis has a good deal of information, as does this book review from 2000 posted on the Guardian's web site. There also is this site devoted to Lewis, but it is patchy. Many people can be considered multi-talented in that they can do more than…

Drawing, Combat No. 2, by Wyndham Lewis, ink and pastel, 1914

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Self-portrait as a Tyro. After Percy Wyndham-Lewis's Portrait as a Tyro from the Vorticist movement.