Vorticism

(noun)

An offshoot of Cubism; a short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century, based in London but international in make-up and ambition.

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Examples of Vorticism in the following topics:

  • Vorticism

    • Vorticism, an offshoot of Cubism, was a brief modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early twentieth century.
    • Vorticism was a brief modernist movement in British art and poetry during the early twentieth century.
    • As a movement, Vorticism rejected the typical landscapes and nudes of the time in favor of a geometric style tending towards abstraction.
    • Lewis saw Vorticism as an independent alternative to Cubism, Futurism, and Expressionism.
    • However, Vorticism diverged from both Cubism and Futurism in the way it tried to capture movement in an image.

  • The Thomson Model

    • With this model, Thomson abandoned his earlier "nebular atom" hypothesis, in which the atom was composed of immaterial vortices.

  • Isentropic flows

  • Steady Supersonic Flow

    • Many disturbances travel through a fluid at a finite speed (changes in the entropy or vorticity move with the fluid).