Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was a French artist and sculptor who developed a rough-hewn, primitive style of direct carving.
Self-portrait, 1913
Self-portrait, 1909.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1914, Boy with a Coney (Boy with a rabbit), marble.
Seated Figure, The Singer, Caritas, Head of Ezra Pound.
Vorticism was a London-based modernist art movement formed in 1914 by the writer and artist Wyndham Lewis. The movement was partially inspired by Cubism and was introduced to the public by means of the publication of the Vorticist manifesto in Blast magazine. Familiar forms of representational art were rejected in favour of a geometric style that tended towards a hard-edged abstraction. Lewis proved unable to harness the talents of his disparate group of avant-garde artists; however, for a brief period Vorticism proved to be an exciting intervention and an artistic riposte to Marinetti's Futurism and the post-impressionism of Roger Fry's Omega Workshops.
Edward Wadsworth, Vorticist Study, 1914, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Rock Drill in Jacob Epstein's studio c.1913
The Dancers Wyndham Lewis, 1912
Kate Lechmere, Cuthbert Hamilton (seated), Edward Wadsworth and Wyndham Lewis at the Rebel Art Centre, March 1914