Severini Gino

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CORTONA (AR) 1883 – PARIGI (FRANCIA) 1966

Gino Severini was born 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 Severini soon came to know most of the Parisian avant-garde, including Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Amedeo Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso; Lugné-Poë and his theatrical circle; the poets Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Fort, and Max Jacob; and author Jules Romains

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