Study for Kites

William Roberts is a British painter of figure compositions and portraits. He was a pioneer of abstract art before the First World War. Roberts worked outside the mainstream. Later in his career he would describe himself as an English Cubist. In 1914 Roberts joined the short-lived art movement the Vorticists, founded by the artist and writer Wyndam Lewis. The Vorticists believed that British art at this time was in a decayed state. Their aesthetic combined the geometrical fragmentation of Cubism with Futurist machine-like imagery. During the First World War, Roberts was a gunner on the Western Front. Later he became a war artist, a position he held in both world wars. He is best remembered for his large complex and colourful compositions.Roberts has marked this reference picture with a grid to help him to transfer it to canvas. The canvas is marked with a corresponding grid allowing the picture to be enlarged and transferred one square at a time.

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제목: Study for Kites
작가: william roberts
제작 연도: 1966
형식: Square
전시 장소: Royal Albert Memorial Museum - Art Gallery
동세: Cubism
재료 및 기법: Watercolor
시대: Modern
매체 유형: WallArt

주요 정보

Medium: Watercolor
Year: 1966
Title: Study for Kites
Artistic style: English Cubism
Artist: William Roberts
Subject or theme: People flying kites on a beach