Vorticism was a short-lived
modernist movement in
British art and poetry of the early 20th century, partly inspired by
Cubism. The movement was announced in 1914 in the first issue of
BLAST, which contained its manifesto and the movement's rejection of
landscape and
nudes in favour of a geometric style tending towards
abstraction. Ultimately, it was their witnessing of unfolding human disaster in
World War I that "drained these artists of their Vorticist zeal". Vorticism was based in
London but was international in make-up and ambition.
