Naive happy excitement wrapped up in images that sort of carry the same excitement but are still refined at some point makes this work feel British. Edward Wadsworth first started to become an engineer and you can see the thoughtful sort of practicality in this image by the colour choices, they fit so nicely together and show the bubbling sort of vorticist passion, he could have gone for some eye assaulting mix that would have got rid of most of the beauty in the print, it probably would have more bluntly shown an impressed and excited view of the world but he went for aesthetic (clever though, black and white and blue and orange give you two combinations that are bold contrasts and four that are more subtle). It also makes me happy that a lot of vorticists apparently realised war was horrific not admirable in the first world war to a
greater extent than the futurists, you can't really ignore the fascistic
bits of futurism.
The source of this image is the book 'The Vorticists' published by Tate Publishing.
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