Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Gino Severini
Born: April 7, 1883
Died: February 26, 1966 (aged 82)
Bio: Gino Severini was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome.
Known for:
- Sea = Dancer (1914)
- Armored Train in Action (1915)
- Red Cross Train Passing a Village (1915)
- Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin (1912)
- Suburban Train Arriving in Paris (1915)