[HN Gopher] A Long-Lost Vorticist Landscape Found Beneath a 1921...
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       A Long-Lost Vorticist Landscape Found Beneath a 1921 Wyndham Lewis
       Painting
        
       Author : prismatic
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2022-08-31 05:11 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
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       | jamal-kumar wrote:
       | I came across Vorticism first when reading on Italian Futurist
       | artists and their relationship to the rise of fascism. It's kind
       | of this short-lived art movement parallel to that Italian
       | movement which didn't last very long because all of the artists
       | got shipped off to the front lines. Kind of an ironic fate for
       | these people considering they were advocating what we might refer
       | to as proto-accelerationist these days in terms of advocating for
       | taking the processes of industrialization and violence to
       | extremes.
       | 
       | Interestingly, this art style ended up having a sort of wartime
       | use [1] where one of the proponents of the art movement ended up
       | getting a job painting "dazzle camouflage" on the sides of ships
       | in WWI/WWII.
       | 
       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
        
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