Gino Severini

Gino Severini, born in Cortona, Italy, in 1883, had an unconventional start to his artistic journey. After being expelled from school at fifteen, he moved to Rome, where he developed a serious interest in art while working as a shipping clerk. There, he met Umberto Boccioni and Giacomo Balla, who introduced him to Divisionism, a technique of painting with adjacent colors and stippled dots that greatly influenced his early work and later Futurist paintings. His move to Paris…