n.
Literary and artistic movement that flourished in England 191215.
Founded by Wyndham Lewis , it attempted to relate art to industrialization. It opposed 19th-century sentimentality and extolled the energy of the machine and machine-made products, and it promoted something of a cult of sheer violence. In the visual arts, Vorticist compositions were abstract and sharp-planed, showing the influence of Cubism and Futurism . Artists involved in the movement included the poet Ezra Pound and the sculptor Jacob Epstein .