Vorticist Visions
”The artist’s objective is Reality.”
”Art at its fullest is a very great
force indeed, a magical force, a
sort of life, a very great ‘reality’.”
(Wyndham Lewis)
English Vanguardism
around the WWI
(VI)
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Blast
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Jessica Dismorr, The Engine (1914)
Edward Wadsworth, Abstract Composition (1915)
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Vorticist Visions
Wyndham Lewis, Composition (1913)
C. R. W. Nevinson, Dance Hall Scene (c. 1913-14)
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Vanguard spaces—Pastoral idioms
Edward Wadsworth, Landscape (1913)
Paul Nash, Void of War (1918)
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Vanguard spaces
Wyndham Lewis, The Crowd (1915)
Stanley Cursiter, The Sensation of Crossing the Street (1913)
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Vanguard spaces—wartime imagery
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, In the Air (1914)
Helen Saunders, Island of Laputa (1914-15)
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Vanguard spaces—wartime imagery
C. R. W. Nevinson, A Bursting Shell (1915)
Paul Nash, Void of War (1918)
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The Representation of the human body
Wyndham Lewis, Man and Woman with Bulldogs (1912)
Helen Saunders, Abstract Multicoloured Design (1915)
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The Representation of the
human body
Mark Gertler
Merry-Go-Round (1916)
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The Representation of the human body
C. R. W. Nevinson,
From Britain’s Efforts and Ideals, The Acetylene Welder (1917)
From Britain’s Efforts and Ideals, Making the Engine (1917)
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WWII Art:
Neo-Romanticism
(VII)
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Post-WWII Visions
Francis Bacon
(1909-1992)
(IX)
”Painting is the
pattern of one's own
nervous system being
projected on canvas.”
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Second Version of
Triptych 1944 - I
(1988)
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Second Version of
Triptych 1944 - II
(1988)
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Second Version of
Triptych 1944 - III
(1988)
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Second Version of Triptych 1944 (1988)
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Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a
Crucifixion (1944)
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Painting 1946
(1946)
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Study for
Crouching
Nude
(1952)
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Study after
Velázquez’s
Portrait of Pope
Innocent X
(1953)
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Diego Velázquez, Innocent X (c1650)
Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X
(1953)
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Rembrandt, The Slaughtered Ox (1655)
Francis Bacon, Painting 1946 (1946)
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Sergei Eisenstein, Still from The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X
(1953)
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The Cathedral of Light at the Nuremberg Rally in
1937 designed by Albert Speer
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Albert Speer, The Cathedral of Light (1937)
Francis Bacon, Study for Crouching Nude (1952)
Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X
(1953)
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”Actually Michelangelo and
Muybridge are mixed up in my
mind together, and so I perhaps
could learn about positions from
Muybridge and learn about
ampleness, the grandeur of form
from Michelangelo.”
Eadweard Muybridge
”Infantile paralysis” from the
series Animal Locomotion
(1887)
Wrestling (1884-5)
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Pop and Op Art
(VIII)
”Pop art is: Popular (designed for a mass audience),
Transient (short-term solution), Expandable (easilyforgotten), Low Cost, Mass Produced, Young
(aimed at youth), Witty, Sexy, Gimmicky,
Glamorous, Big business.”
(Richard Hamilton)
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Richard Hamilton
Just what is it that
makes today’s homes
so different, so
appealing?
(1956)
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Richard Hamilton
Hommage à Chrysler Corp.
(1957)
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The conical bra advertisement from the 50s and its incorporation
into Hamilton’s tabular image
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Bra ads
from the
1950s
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Chrysler Imperial ad 1957
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Chrysler ads from the 1950s
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Richard Hamilton
$he
(1958-61)
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Ads for household appliances and commodities from the
1950s
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Ads for household appliances or commodities from
the 1950s
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Joe Tilson, Transparency, the Five Senses: Taste (1969)
Screenprint on vacuum-formed sheet of perspex; relief (1470*1470*50 mm)
Joe Tilson, Cut Out and Send II (1968)
Screenprint on paper image (1013*686 mm)
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Joe Tilson, Transparency I:
Yuri Gagarin 12 April 1961
(1968)
Screenprint and mixed
media on plastic; relief
object (1219*1219*51 mm)
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Richard Smith, Giftwrap (1963)
Oil on canvas; relief (2019*5290*800 mm)
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Richard Smith, Slot Machine (1962)
Oil on wood, canvas and paper; relief (569*505*85 mm)
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Richard Smith, Piano (1963)
Oil on canvas; relief (1826*2772*1140 mm)
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Bridget Riley
Hesitate (1964)
Arrest I (1965)
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Bridget Riley
Cataract III
(1967)
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