Severini, Gino: Biography
Gino Severini (1883-1966) Gino Severini was born on April 7, 1883, in Cortona, Italy. He studied at the Scuola Tecnica in Cortona before moving to Rome in 1899. There he attended art classes at the Villa Medici and by 1901 met Umberto Boccioni, who had also recently arrived in Rome and later would be one of the theoreticians of Futurism. Together Severini and Boccioni visited the studio of Giacomo Balla where they were introduced to painting with “divided” rather than mixed color. After settling in Paris in November 1906, Severini studied Impressionist painting and met the Neo-Impressionist Paul Signac.
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Severini, Gino: Brief History
In 1906 he settled in Paris. First associated with the cubist painters, he later became a principal figure in the movement known as futurism. Severini was greatly influenced by Seurat and theories of neoimpressionism.
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Severini, Gino: Brief History
Painter whose synthesis of the styles of Futurism and Cubism was instrumental in gaining acceptance for the Futurist movement outside Italy.
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