Edinburgh Castle - SKETCHLINE

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1914 - 1915

Edinburgh Castle

author

Jessica Stewart Dismorr

description

Mediums: cardboard, gouache, watercolour.
Location: The Victoria and Albert Museum (the UK).

The image of the ancient castle on Castle Rock in the center of the capital of Scotland is made in such a perspective as if it was a narrow street of the city. The space is indicated by two large tinted semicircles behind the walls of a grandiose structure. The work, published in one of the two issues of the Explosion magazine, is technically consistent with the style of vorticism and was created by the author to illustrate her prose works. At the same time, Dismorr wrote her London Notes and created a map of the British capital, which became her guide and social criticism of London as a city that affirms and encourages the feeling of male power and female isolation.