noun
- artists or writers associated with Vorticism, an early 20th-century British avant-garde movement that emphasized dynamic, angular forms and machine-age aesthetics
Usage: art history; literary history
Examples
- The vorticists rejected traditional artistic conventions in favor of bold, geometric designs.
- Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis were prominent vorticists who influenced modern art and literature.
- The exhibition featured works by several vorticists from the 1910s.
- Many vorticists were fascinated by the energy and movement of industrial machinery.
- The vorticists published their manifesto in the magazine BLAST.
- Critics initially dismissed the vorticists as too radical and experimental.