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"..the gesture that we want.. ..will be the dynamic sensation itself."
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Gino Severini..since then I have found consolation in Blake; Without Contraries is — Gino Severini
"..since then I have found consolation in Blake; Without Contraries is no progression, he says in his Proverbs of Hell. And Baudelaires idea that Variety is an essential condition of life seems to me to be in perfect accord with my aspirations and with my intention, as a Futurist painter, to put life in the place occupied by reasoning in the art of the Cubist period."
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Gino Severini
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Gino Severini was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life, he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order" in the decade after the First World War. During his career, he worked in a variety of media, including mosaic and fresco. He showed his work at major exhibitions, including the Rome Quad
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"[Severini referred to himself as a] ..primitive who is thrilled by the movement of a dancer and boulevard filled with people."
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"The metaphysical forms which compose our futurist pictures are the result of realities conceived and realities created entirely by the artist. These last are inspired by the emotion or intuition and dependent on atmosphere-ambience."
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"The sea dancing, its 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 a painting he made in 1914]"
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"..displacement of bodies in [the] atmosphere [where] two persons form but one plastic unity, rhythmically balanced."
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"I would like my colors to be diamonds and to be able to make abundant use of them in my pictures so as to make them gleam with light and richness."
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