The exhibition Italian Futurism, 1909–1944 ... would also include Balla’s “Dynamicism of a Dog on Leash” and Gino Severini’s “Blue Dancer” and “Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal ...

Armored Train in Action (1915) by Gino Severini. Italian Futurist paintings adopted a Cubist visual vocabulary but were bolder and brasher. Digital Image © The ...

What happens to an art movement dedicated to perpetual movement ... Marinetti; the painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, and Gino Severini; the photographer Anton Giulio Bragaglia; and some ...

praised Severini’s hyperkinetic piece as “marvelously gaudy.” And Robert Hughes, one of today’s leading art critics, says the work is still “charged with evocative power.” Futurism had ...

Gino Severini (1883-1966) was born in Cortona, Italy into a poor family. His work was recognized as a notable part of the Futurist movement. In 1899 he moved to Rome with his mother where he first ...

Italian Futurism was inspired by the 20th ... and was financially helped to study art by a Vatican prelate from Cortona, despite his non-attendance of church. Cortona forged Severini’s character; ...