Gino Severini vs. Wassily Kandinsky
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Gino Severini
1883 – 1966
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. He was associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order" in the decade after the First World War. During his career, he worked in a variety of media, including mosaic and fresco. He showed his work at major exhibitions, including the Rome Quadrennial, and won art prizes from major institutions.
"I found in your book the confirmation of my ultimate conclusions and the tools for deepening this aspect of the artistic problem."
Wassily Kandinsky
1866 – 1944
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Born in Moscow, he began painting studies at the age of 30.
"If until now colour and form were used as inner agents, it was mainly done subconsciously. The subordination of composition to geometrical form is no new idea .…"