. Bomberg was apprenticed to a lithographer in 1905 and studied under Walter Sickert at the Westminster School of Art. His abstract works are filled with angular forms and painted in a hard-edge style. ..
. Associated with Wyndham Lewis and The Vorticists, though not a signatory to their Manifesto. The powerful English cubist style he employed from 1912-15 brought him much acclaim. Following his service in World War 1, Bomberg's style became more naturalistic. His response to forms in landscape and his ability to convey 'the spirit in the mass' led to some remarkable works during the next 30 years but brought him little success with either critics or public.
Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals ----- All Fiction ----- Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G. Bomberg was apprenticed to a lithographer in 1905 and studied under Walter Sickert at the Westminster School of Art. His abstract works are filled with angular forms and painted in a hard-edge style. ..
. In 1917, he was commissioned by the Canadian authorities to do a painting celebrating an operation in which the sappers successfully blew up a salient of the German defences at Saint-Eloi near Arras. Despite this warning, the first version of his painting shows a mixed style in which figurative elements are caught up in a composition dominated by non-imitative colours and the powerfully dynamic rhythms of oblique lines in blue and purple. The painting was rejected by the emissary of the Canadian committee, who criticised Bomberg's 'Futurism' which he found unacceptable. Convinced by his wife, in a very short space of time Bomberg produced a second version in line with the commissioner's instructions.
