Category: Vorticism

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Nikitha Yelchuru

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Nikitha Yelchuru is a San Jose-based artist who crafts jewelry and sculptural objects through a unique technique called quilling—rolling, shaping, and gluing strips of paper into decorative designs.Originally from India and now based in the U.S., Yelchuru blends traditional techniques with modern aesthetics, often collaborating with illustrators to add depth and emotion to her work.

Using the ancient art form of quilling, Yelchuru transform strips of paper into intricate, vibrant compositions that tell meaningful stories.Each of her works begins as an observational sketch, inspired by her everyday life and the natural world.Using these sketches as a jumping-off point, Yelchuru quills paper objects by making intuitive associations and finding formal parallels.She uses the character, shape, and color she sees to articulate the poetic meaning in everyday life and translate positive energy into spontaneously constructed forms. Her delicate hand-made pieces bear witness to her commitment to excellent craftsmanship.

More of Nikitha Yelchuru’s marvelous craftmanship can be found at https://papersweetly.com/

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Wyndham Lewis

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Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882 -1957) was a British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited Blast, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.

Lewis was educated in England at Rugby School and then, from 16, the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, but left for Paris without finishing his courses.

Three years later, he moved to Paris where, after discovering Cubism and Expressionism, he created a new movement – Vorticism.

Vorticism is a short-lived but ambitious movement that aimed to give artistic expression to the vitality and raw dynamism of the machine age.Vorticist paintings emphasized ‘modern life’ as an array of bold lines and harsh colors drawing the viewer’s eye into the center of the canvas and vorticist sculpture created energy and intensity through ‘direct carving’.

Lewis was a radical and wanted to challenge compositional harmony in painting.

His Vorticist cityscapes, represented as bold geometric lines that criss-crossed his canvases at sharp angles, were perfectly matched to the noisy, chaotic and claustrophobic London in which he was living.

More of Wyndham Lewis’ bold paintings can be found at https://wyndhamlewissociety.org/.