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Gino Severini

Gino Severini (1883 - 1966) was active/lived in Italy, France.  Gino Severini is known for Futurist, cubist figure painting and sculpture.

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Gino Severini was born in Cortona, Italy on 7 April 1883.  In 1899 the Italian painter, graphic artist and sculptor went to Rome in 1899 to attend evening classes at the Villa Medici. After a decisive encounter with Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni, he began working as an artist in 1901. Balla introduced him to the divisionistic colour technique of the Neo-Impressionists*.

Gino Severini moved to Paris in 1906 where he studied the Impressionists*, was fascinated with Seurat's paintings and met Signac.  Beside Modigliani, Picasso, Braque and Gris he further encountered various well-known poets and thinkers of his time.

Marinetti and Boccioni invited him to join the Futurist* movement. On 11 February 1910 Severini signed the 'Manifesto of Futurist Painting' and thus became a co-founder of this style.

In contrast to his artist colleagues, Severini was barely interested in the dynamic of machines, but in the depiction of human bodies in motion.  His   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2990 characters.]  Artist bio

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