EDWARD WADSWORTH

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture by Gautam Shah

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Edward Alexander Wadsworth (1889-1949) was a British painter, print-maker, draughtsman, and designer. He studied engineering in Munich, and art in his spare time at the Knirr School. He later attended Bradford School of Art and at the Slade School of Art.

Wadsworth loved the sea coast life and painted maritime subjects. He has worked in oil, tempera medium, prints with wood engraving and copper and wood cuts. Wadsworth started out with Impressionism, but, soon turned to futurist style. He was a member of a short-lived art movement, the Vorticist group.

Wadsworth, during 1914–15, produced geometrical abstract art with a Surrealistic flavour. During the first world war, he was assigned to design the dazzle graphics for the ships. These graphics were to confuse the enemy rather than camouflage the ship. He adopted the same style for production of abstract art. He began to use tempera in about 1922. In later part of life, (1934), he adopted a more naturalistic language, instead of Cubist temperament.

Wadsworth was described by Sir John Rothenstein as ‘a true poet of the age of machines’.

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