Jessica Dismorr
Abstract Composition is a painting by the British artist Jessica Dismorr. It features a series of pastel-colored geometric forms, reminiscent of architectural components, overlapping on a black ground. A dark yellow triangular prism with a curved side provides a vertical focus and splits the composition in two. A smaller pale pink object appears to approach the foreground, which is crowded by five more objects of different shapes and colors. The arrangement of these objects, as well as the interaction of darker and lighter colors, creates an illusion of depth and movement.
Dismorr was a signatory member of the Vorticist movement. Vorticism was a literary and artistic movement that flourished in England in 1912–1915. Founded by Wyndham Lewis, it attempted to relate art to industrialization. It opposed 19th-century sentimentality and extolled the energy of the machine and machine-made products, and it promoted something of a cult of sheer violence. In the visual arts, Vorticist compositions were abstract and sharp-planed, showing the influence of Cubism and Futurism. Artists involved in the movement included the poet Ezra Pound and the sculptor Jacob Epstein.
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P.P.S. Did you know that the precursor of Abstract art was female? Here you can read about Hilma af Klint. :)