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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 VisionsWyndham Lewis, Composition (1913)

C. R. W. Nevinson, Dance Hall Scene (c. 1913-14)

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Vanguard spaces—Pastoral idiomsEdward Wadsworth, Landscape (1913)

Paul Nash, Void of War (1918)

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Vanguard spacesWyndham 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 bodyC. 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 (easily-forgotten), 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 HamiltonHommage 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 RileyHesitate (1964)Arrest I (1965)

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Bridget Riley

Cataract III (1967)