Gaudier-Brzeska’s Sketchbook | TateShots
Vorticism was a radical art movement that shone briefly but brightly in the years before and during World War I. One of the movement’s stars was Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and in this film Chris Stephens, curator of The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, looks through one of the artist’s sketchbooks. He explains how the sketchbook enhances our understanding of some of Gaudier- Brzeska’s most memorable works.
Film by Tate
About Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was one of the most original and dynamic artists working in Europe before the First World War. Born in Saint-Jean-de-Braye near Orléans in France, he arrived in London in 1911 and quickly became associated with the most radical artistic circles of the period. Although his career lasted only a few years before his death at the age of twenty-three during the First World War, his influence on modern British sculpture proved profound and enduring.
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