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"Sea = Dancer"

Gino Severini - Oil On Canvas - 100 x 80 cm


famous painting Sea = Dancer of Gino Severini
Sea = Dancer is a futurist oil painting created by Gino Severini in the year 1914. Currently living at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the canvas is appreciated world-wide for expression of motion and dance. In 1913 Severini went to the coastal town of Anzio, Italy, for a vacation and it was there that he was inspired to paint the Sea=Dancer. The vibrant colors and choppy brushstrokes are derived from Neo-Impressionism, which was quite the popular form when Severini first settled in Paris. The technique gives flexibility and vibrancy to this jolly subject in which the dancer and the sea comes together—the dancer’s costume likened to the movement of the ocean. The vast sea cannot be contained within a framed canvas, and so to represent that the waves lick the edge of the picture frame, moving towards the viewer’s space. According to Severini, the environment is optically perceived and hence fluid, and the human figure is merely a part of that metamorphic reality. The canvas explores the swirling motions of a dancer’s dress and compares it with the waves of the sea. The combination of cylindrical and flat planes in this painting brings to mind the contemporaneous Cubism of Fernand Léger. However, when looked closely, the color is closer to the prismatic hues of Robert Delaunay. The absence of outline and the dissolution of volume is very distinct when it comes to Severini’s work.
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