Vorticism

Vorticism was a short-lived British avant-garde art movement founded in 1914, characterized by bold geometric forms, sharp angles, and machine-age imagery.

Led by Wyndham Lewis and promoted through the magazine BLAST, it drew on Cubism and Futurism while rejecting what its adherents saw as Futurism's romanticism about technology.

The name evokes a vortex—a swirling point of maximum energy—reflecting the movement's aggressive, dynamic aesthetic.

World War I effectively ended Vorticism by 1915, though its influence persisted in British modernism.