Composition

Mediums: ink, watercolor, graphite, paper.
Location: The Tate Modern Gallery, London (the UK).

This composition was one of the first works by Lewis, which proposed the architectural and mechanical rhythm of urban life using the techniques of cubism, futurism and abstraction. Although the sharp image of the fragmented space is unambiguously associated with these movements, the author believed that his “vorticism” developed together with American poet and critic E. Pound defied both French Cubism and Italian Futurism. The composition has contrasting tones of a dark and light palette. The work was published in 1914 in the first issues of the BLAST magazine, the pages of which Lewis used to “attack traditional harmony”.