Wyndham Lewis: an exhibition within the Fine Art, Design & Antiques fair Olympia London 1-6 March 2005

Apollo, Feb, 2005 by Angus Stewart

His first pictorial works were in the tradition of the renaissance. That style gave way to one that was influenced by ancient and ethnic art. Futurism stimulated his ambition and he introduced a movement that relished external appearance, the superficial appearance as opposed to the internal essence. Lewis proclaimed this as Vorticism. Never content, Lewis moved on to widely varied reportage that was a mix of the subject's surface enlivened by free-flowing swirls and precise geometric inventions. 'I have never departed from a dual activity ... what I did when I had nature in front of me and what I did when I was not making use of nature'.

Curators: Angus Stewart & Matthew Hall www.wyndhamlewis.com

Angus Stewart has been a critic of art and writing for fifty years. He has curated exhibitions on 20th-century British artists and the decorative arts.