ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957) was an English painter and one of the key names associated with the Vorticist movement. He was also a prolific writer and the editor of BLAST magazine, a fleeting Vorticist publication. Vorticism was a kind of amalgamation of Cubism and Futurism (make of that what you will). But Lewis was also linked to the Camden Town Group and the Bloomsbury Group’s Omega Workshops.

Despite not being a particularly big household name in British art, Lewis should be considered as a pretty important figure in both avant-garde art and writing. The Tate collection holds a fair few works by Lewis, so head there if you’re interested in this kind of expressive, dynamic style.

Workshop by Wyndham Lewis, c.1914. This is an example of the Vorticist movement, co-founded by British artist Wyndham Lewis. Similar to Cubism and Futurism, Vorticism involves bold, angular linework which creates strong movements in the visual images such as in Workshop.