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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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 he studied at the Slade School of Art, 1898 - 1901. Painter, poet and polemicist, Lewis founded the Vorticist movement in 1914, a...

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

Wyndham Lewis's art, like his writing, was both acclaimed and disdained in his lifetime. A National Portrait Gallery exhibition explores his portraiture

Wyndham Lewis

Bagdad by Wyndham Lewis 1927–8 Oil paint on wood 1829 × 787 mm https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewis-bagdad-t00099

Portrait of Kate Lechmere by Wyndham Lewis: Vorticism