Monday Word: Vorticist
Nov. 17th, 2025 03:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stonepicnicking_okapi posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
1word1dayvorticist [ˈvɔːtɪsɪst]
noun
a member of a British artistic movement of 1914–15 influenced by cubism and futurism and favouring harsh, angular, machine-like forms
examples
1. The Kansas cyclone that whisks Dorothy into a dreamworld is evoked through vorticist projections the work of Jon Driscoll that betoken chaos in the cosmos. The Wizard of Oz - review 2011
2. The winter sales posters brilliantly harness the dynamic movement of vorticist and futurist art - one image is a blizzard of angled and curved raincoats, sheets of rain and upturned umbrellas. Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2011
origin
Latin vortic-, vortex; first known use in 1914
Wyndam Lewis, The Dancers, 1912
noun
a member of a British artistic movement of 1914–15 influenced by cubism and futurism and favouring harsh, angular, machine-like forms
examples
1. The Kansas cyclone that whisks Dorothy into a dreamworld is evoked through vorticist projections the work of Jon Driscoll that betoken chaos in the cosmos. The Wizard of Oz - review 2011
2. The winter sales posters brilliantly harness the dynamic movement of vorticist and futurist art - one image is a blizzard of angled and curved raincoats, sheets of rain and upturned umbrellas. Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2011
origin
Latin vortic-, vortex; first known use in 1914
Wyndam Lewis, The Dancers, 1912
(no subject)
Date: 2025-11-19 05:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-11-19 10:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-11-23 12:46 am (UTC)