Severini, in his artist quotes on painting & Futurism - free resource, Italian art history

Gino Severini in his quotes - the artist on Futuris painting art & his life in Italy - free resource for pupils, students and teachers in Italian art history

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Gino Severini 's artists quotes illustrate very clearly the ‘war’ between French Cubism and Italian Futurism in Paris. He also refers to his early futurist attempts to use color and movement in his painting art, to realize dynamic images; title of a one of his paintings, c. 1914: Sea is ‘dancer’.

In 1910 Severini signed the first ‘Manifesto of the Futurist Painters’, together with his Italian fellow Futurist colleagues. A famous and outspoken Futurist painting of Severini is his ‘Armored train’. Severini lived many years in Paris and kept contact by letters with his fellow-Futurists in Italy. Later in his life he became more and more attracted by static Cubism, French Purism and classical painting art.
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Some selected quotes of Italian artist Gino Severini - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’The sea dancing, it’s zig-zag movements and contrasting silver and emerald, evokes within my plastic sensibility the distant vision of a dancer covered in a sparkling sequins in her world of light, noise and sound. Therefore sea = dancer (= title of his painting, 1914). - Severini’s quote, from his manifesto ‘The Plastic Analogies of Dynamism’, c. 1914; quoted in ‘Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism’’, Chr. Poggi, Princeton University Press, 2009, p. 217

• ’The truth lies somewhere between these two aesthetics (static French Cubism and dynamic Italian Futurism)…’ - quote by Severini, in: ‘Preface’ of the exhibition catalogue, New York, March 1917

• ’Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in this phrase: To create a harmony’ - Severini’s quote, c. 1950’s: as cited by Clint Brown (1998) in ‘Artist to Artist’, p. 32
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  links for free art-resources on Italian Futurist artist Gino Severini:

  • biographical notes on Gino Severini, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Severini
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Severini, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gino_Severini
  • images of the painting art of Gino Severini, Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/severini
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