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Title: Gino Severini, el pintor multiestilos: prob los ms diversos estilos, destac en todos y muri con una sonrisa en el rostro.(Biografa)
Publication: Contenido (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2004
Publisher: Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: 496Page: 48(6)

Article Type: Biografa

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This is the catalogue of the recent exhibition at the Guggenheim Collection in Venice devoted to a 20th-century avant garde master on one of his favorite subjects: the dance. Between 1910 and 1915 Gino Severini was a central figure of Italian Futurism, the movement that celebrated the modern by giving expression to contemporary theories about sensory perception of the new urban and industrial environments. As a resident of Paris, Severini served as an intermediary between Futurists in Italy and the Parisian avant-garde, especially his friends among the Cubist painters.

Above all other art movements, the dance excited Severini's imagination as a painter during his Futurist period. The dancing figure was for him the icon of modernity, a metaphor of dynamism, and the door of perception through which he invited viewers to enter a world built on rhythm observed with intense involvement.

The volume charts a pictorial journey to the limits of abstract art: fifty paintings by Severini, together with nearly fifty works by his contemporaries including: Van Doesburg, Kirchner, Man Ray, Gaudier-Brzeska, Muybridge, Nevinson, Boccioni, Depero, Balla and Sironi.
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In 1906 the Italian futurist painter Gino Severini arrived in Paris with no money, no name, and very few acquaintances, only to become a key protagonist in the artistic and literary circles that would spearhead the modernist movement. His autobiography from this period, translated for the first time into English, tells the story of the Parisian art world he knew so well, and offers a unique account of the individuals and ideas that created modernism.

Here we encounter painters and sculptors such as Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Braque, Gris, Dufy, Léger, Delaunay, Duchamp, Lipchitz, and De Chirico; the literary figures Marinetti, Paul Fort, Apollinaire, Cocteau, Reverdy, and Jarry; and also the philosopher and writer Maritain, composers Eric Satie and Igor Stravinsky, and the impresario of the Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev. Severini shared their experiences in the studios, galleries, and cafés of Montmartre and Montparnasse, and re-creates the passionate debates that animated those gatherings. We witness not only the maturing of Severini's art and aesthetic theory but also the intellectual and political turbulence that brought forth a wealth of approaches to art in the first two decades of this century, including futurism, cubism, surrealism, constructivism, dadaism, and metaphysical painting.

Beginning with an honest, humorous description of his financially ill-fated family in Tuscany, Severini goes on to describe the triumphs and mistakes of his adolescence in the Roman art scene, where he fraternized with Balla and Boccioni. His down-to-earth tone pervades his anecdotes and assessments of the Parisian art world, enabling a casual reader to grasp the many issues at stake. As Severini's status as an important painter gains widespread recognition, this autobiography serves as a valuable resource for critics and a thoroughly delightful, engaging account for anyone interested in learning more about this artist who sheds new light on many of the crucial movements of the century. ... Read more

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Life of a painter-Gino Severini
Terse and dense manifesto, not a picture book ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1039 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ancii Manlii Severini Boethii. De divisione liber.(Book Review)
Author: Timothy B. Noone
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: Philosophy Education Society, Inc.
Volume: 58Issue: 1Page: 171(3)

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Gino Severini's first solo exhibition took place in London'sMarlborough Gallery in 1913. Its reception ranged from adulation among thecognoscenti to bewildered reactions from the popular press. Though his paintingswere shown in the context of Futurist group exhibitions or thematic shows oftwentieth-century Italian art, there was never a museum exhibition in Britaindevoted solely to his work. Gino Severini: From Futurism to Classicism,part of the National Touring Exhibitions program of the Hayward Gallery, aims toredress this situation. The exhibition and the lavishly illustrated book thataccompanies it bring into focus the essence of Gino Severini's highlydistinctive talent, and the contribution he has made to modern art. GinoSeverini concentrates on the most significant decade of the artist's career: the years from 1910 until 1920. It follows the development of his art from hisFuturist works of the early 1910s, with their rejection of the past and theiremphasis on dynamism and the modern world, to his adoption of a Synthetic Cubiststyle during the war years and finally to the timeless and mathematicallycomposed still lifes and figures he painted from 1919 onwards.

Reflected in a broad range of contemporary themes from war to dancers,Severini's stance during a decade of political and artistic upheaval--madeespecially distinctive by the move from his native Italy to Paris--isexceptional. His development is a fascinating parallel to the directions takenby his Paris contemporaries including Picasso, Gris and Metzinger. This fully- illustrated book includes insightful essays by Simonetta Fraquelli, curator, andChristopher Green, History of Art Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art. ... Read more

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review of wonderful book
excellent book, portrays life of the artist in easy and understnadable concepts! ... Read more