My piece that I chose to stare at for 20 minutes was Gino Severini’s Armored Train in Action. I chose this piece to spend my time at, particularly because of the way the composition is set up so that the train looks like it’s coming right at you, and the way that the artist uses not only tone, but his brush strokes also to create depth in the painting. Severini paints very colorfully and uses lighting and shadow, and if you look closer depending how the thing he is drawing or painting bends or folds, he will keep his brush strokes in that direction to show the bend not only with color but with the strokes in the paint themselves. George Seurat’s brush strokes come a lot to mind when i see them, but more in an organized fashion.
Gino Severini was born April 7th, 1883 in Cortona Italy. Severini would grow up to become a talented pointillist painter, known for his work in Italy (Britannica). Then in 1914, when Servini was 31 years old, Italy joined the fight in World War 1 (Italy). Italy wanted the benefits of the war that its allies promised, and though Italy was not yet fully industrialized, like Russia, it joined for the gain of more territory and most importantly, territory over its border with Austria-Hungary (Italy). Italy was the birthplace of the futurist movement that started in 1909 Artists of the futurist movement, though once rejected by scholars, that futurists had their own political agenda with their work (Futurism). But further research throughout history has