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He was one of the first British artists to incorporate elements from the Continental movements Cubism and Expressionism into his work, having spent the years 1902-1908 travelling Europe and studying in museums. Lewis developed his own distinctive style, which was characterised by linear and formal distortion but underpinned by the sure draughtsmanship he had learned at the Slade. By around 1913 Lewis was generally acknowledged to be Britain's leading avant-garde artist. He went on to base his art on mechanistic and geometrical forms, a style which he termed Vorticism. \r\n\r\n<i>Sunset among the Michelangelos</i> appears to express Lewis's vehement rejection of the traditional view that the Italian High Renaissance represented the highest point of artistic achievement. 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