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Dancer (Danseuse)

Gino Severini

Artwork Details

Dancer (Danseuse)
1955
Gino Severini
color lithograph on paper
22 1/16 x 15 in. (55.9 x 38 cm);28 1/8 x 22 1/8 in. (71.28 x 56.04 cm);22 1/16 x 15 1/16 in. (55.9 x 38.2 cm);19 5/16 x 12 5/8 in. (49 x 32 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Kripke
1967/2.43

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Description

The Italian artist Gino Severini moved from Milan to Paris in 1906. After visiting a large Cubist exhibition in 1912, the artist abandoned his early enthusiasm for the Italian Futurist movement with its emphasis on dynamic, sometimes violent, change and evolved his own brightly colored and appealingly decorative version of Cubism.

Subject Matter:

Severini's treatment of a dancer in motion conveys the harmony and dynamism of the figure's movements rendered in a highly abstracted form.

Physical Description:

An explosion of colorful forms suggests the human form in dynamic movement. Yellows and reds predominate in shapes that draw the eye toward the viewer's upper right where three roughy triangular yellow shapes suggest a head and upraised arms.

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