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Scientist of the Day - Edward Wadsworth
Edward Alexander Wadsworth, an English painter, was born Oct. 29, Wadsworth was one of the founding members of an avant-garde movement known as Vorticism. Ten days ago, we discussed an Italian avant-garde artistic movement called Futurism (see our post onUmberto Boccioni). Futurism was caught up in the machine age and obsessed with speed and railroads, but when they tried to bring their movement to England and enlist English painters, some of them rebelled and decided to embrace the age of the machine in their own way. The Vorticist manifesto of (every new school seems to have begun with a manifesto) was written by Wyndham Lewis, and one of the first to sign on was Wadsworth. I am not an art historian, and it is hard for me to figure out exactly what unified the Vorticists, except that they were against impressionism and realism, admired Cubism but thought it too passive, used the vortex as a symbol for a concentration of energy, an
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Edward Wadsworth
English painter
Edward Wadsworth | |
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Wadsworth in (self-portrait in tempera) | |
| Born | Edward Alexander Wadsworth 19 October &#;() Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 21 June &#;() (aged&#;59) Bayswater, London, England |
| Known&#;for | Painting |
| Movement | modernism |
Edward Alexander WadsworthARA (19 October – 21 June ) was a British artist initially associated with the Vorticism movement. In the First World War he was part of a team involved in the transfer of dazzle camouflage designs to ships for the Royal Navy. After the war his maritime landscapes and still-life compositions using tempera were infused with a surrealistic mood - although he never exhibited with the British surrealists. In the early thirties and in the early forties his work was mainly abstract. He made a significant contribution to the development of modern art in Britain in the inter-war years.
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| Title | Dux et Comes IV (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Tempera on canvas |
| Brief description | Painting, Dux et Comes IV, bygd Edward Wadsworth, tempera on canvas, |
| Physical description | Tempera painting |
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| Object history | Purchased from the artist's widow, |