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Lewis was born on a yacht off the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. His mother was British, his father American. He went to school in England, first at Rugby School, then at the Slade School of art in London, before spending most of the 1900s travelling around Europe and studying art in ParisEiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital and largest city of France. The city is built on an arc of the River Seine, and is thus divided into two parts: the Right Bank to the north and the smaller Left Bank to. The cover of the 1915 wartime number of the Vorticist magazine BLAST. It was in the 1910sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 Events and trends Technology John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown make first non that he found the painting style for which he is best known today, a style which his friend Ezra PoundEzra Weston Loomis Pound ( October 30 1885 November 1 1972) was a poet, musician and critic who, along with T. Eliot, was one of the major figures of the modernist movement in early 20th century poetry. He was the driving force behind several modernist mo dubbed vorticism. Lewis found the strong structure of cubismGeorges Braque, 1913 Cubism was an avant-garde art movement that revolutionised European painting and sculpture in the early 20th century. The essence of cubism is that instead of viewing subjects from a single, fixed angle, the artist breaks them up into painting appealing, but said it did not seem "alive" compared to futuristThis article is about the art movement, futurism. Futurist is also another word for Futurologist. Futurism was a 20th century art movement. Although a nascent Futurism can been seen surfacing throughout the very early years of that century, the 1907 essay art, which, conversely, lacked structure. Vorticism is often seen as a combination of these two movements. In these early works Lewis was probably more influenced by the process philosophyProcess philosophy is a philosophical and metaphysical system developed by Alfred North Whitehead, described in his book Process and Reality''. Whitehead was a logician/mathematician. He understood quantum theory, even to the point of developing a Theory of Henri BergsonHenri-Louis Bergson ( October 18, 1859 January 4, 1941) was a French philosopher, influential in France, but out of the main currents of his time. Life and work Bergson's life was the quiet and uneventful one of a French professor, the chief landmarks in than he was later prepared to admit.

After the vorticist's only exhibition in 1915, the movement broke up, largely as a result of World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of. Lewis was posted to the western front, and served as Official War Artist, painting one of his best known paintings, A Battery Shelled, while there. His first novel Tarr was published immediately after the war, and is one of the key modernist texts.

By the late 1920s, Lewis was not painting so much, instead concentrating on writing. He wrote biting satirical attacks on the Bloomsbury group, which did not help him to be accepted into the literary world, and his book Hitler (1931), which was distinctly in favour of its subject, caused him to be shunned by many. He later wrote The Hitler Cult (1939), a book which largely went back on his earlier pro- Hitler pronouncements, but the damage was done, and Lewis was to remain an isolated figure. However it was during this period that he wrote The Revenge for Love which some believe to be his best novel. He also wrote some of his best critical books, including 'Men Without Art' (1934) and 'Time and Western Man' (1927), this latter adopting an unambiguously Thomist critique of contemporary literature. The strong influence of Aristotelian metaphysics (via Aquinas) has probably been insufficiently noted in Lewis criticism.

Despite being better known for his writing than his painting in his later years, paintings from the 1930s and 1940s constitute some of his best known work. They are mainly portraits, and include pictures of Edith Sitwell (1935), T. S. Eliot (1938 and again in 1949) and Ezra Pound (1938).

Lewis spent World War II in the United States and Canada. He returned to England following the war. By 1951, he was completely blind, and in 1954 he wrote the autobiographical Rude Assignment. He died in 1957. He had drawn close to Roman Catholicism in his last years, and it is possible that he would have joined the Church had death not intervened.