[HN Gopher] A Long-Lost Vorticist Landscape Found Beneath a 1921...
___________________________________________________________________
 
A Long-Lost Vorticist Landscape Found Beneath a 1921 Wyndham Lewis
Painting
 
Author : prismatic
Score  : 29 points
Date   : 2022-08-31 05:11 UTC (17 hours ago)
 
web link (news.artnet.com)
w3m dump (news.artnet.com)
 
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| I came across Vorticism first when reading on Italian Futurist
| artists and their relationship to the rise of fascism. It's kind
| of this short-lived art movement parallel to that Italian
| movement which didn't last very long because all of the artists
| got shipped off to the front lines. Kind of an ironic fate for
| these people considering they were advocating what we might refer
| to as proto-accelerationist these days in terms of advocating for
| taking the processes of industrialization and violence to
| extremes.
| 
| Interestingly, this art style ended up having a sort of wartime
| use [1] where one of the proponents of the art movement ended up
| getting a job painting "dazzle camouflage" on the sides of ships
| in WWI/WWII.
| 
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
 
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2022-08-31 23:01 UTC)