Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was a British painter, novelist and critic, born in Nova Scotia, and the leading figure of Vorticism, the hard-edged movement that brought machine-age abstraction to London on the eve of the First World War. In 1914 he launched BLAST, an oversized pink magazine whose manifesto blasted the whole Victorian age and blessed the humble hairdresser. The poet Ezra Pound gave the movement its name, and the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and the printmaker Edward Wadsworth signed its manifesto. Lewis went on to write the novel Tarr and to paint portraits of T. S. Eliot and Edith Sitwell. Explore more British art posters.