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Vorticist

Vorticist

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A person who belongs to an early 1900s British art group using bold abstract shapes to show movement
  • noun
  • /ˈvɔrtɪsɪst/
  • Literature
: vorticista
  • As a Vorticist, she embraced the use of angular lines and geometric patterns inspired by the industrial age.

Examples

  • When he left London for the western front in 1917, he was already famous, or notorious, as the author of the novel Tarr, the editor of the provocative magazine BLAST (the first English periodical to publish Eliot), and the leading Vorticist painter, a colleague of the Vorticist American poet, Pound.

    Academic text (2001)

  • The Vorticist movement focused on the dynamic shapes and bold forms that reflect the energy of modern life.

  • Many artists, identified as Vorticists, sought to break free from traditional artistic constraints to establish a new visual language.

Synonyms

votary
vsVorticist
  • Literature
1 9.9

A person who strongly supports a cause or activity

is a specific supporter of a historical art movement rather than a general devotee

Surface Forms

Vorticist singular
Vorticists plural

Morphology

Vorticist = Vorticism (transparent) = vortic + ist

Denotes a person associated with the movement 'Vorticism'; the agentive suffix '-ist' is productive and the relation is clear.

Etymology

Vorticist comes from the word vortex, which means 'whirl' or 'whirlpool', and the ending -ist meaning 'a person who follows a style'. Early artists used the idea of a spinning, machine-like energy as their image, so a Vorticist is a member or supporter of that bold, abstract art movement.