The artwork is part of the A3M Collection
— In Ballerine, Gino Severini captures the essence of movement not through depiction, but through rhythm and geometry. The fragmented planes and intersecting lines construct a figure in perpetual motion — a dancer emerging from color and form rather than from flesh.
The interplay of pink, blue, gray, and black becomes a choreography of light, translating the grace of the ballet into the abstract language of Futurism tempered by Cubist clarity. Severini’s use of color conveys both dynamism and restraint. The bright accents pulse against muted backgrounds, giving the composition the cadence of a musical score.
His precise structure does not confine the figure but liberates it, allowing movement to unfold across the surface in continuous vibration. Ballerine stands as a meditation on harmony — the human form reimagined as a perfect instrument of rhythm, balance, and expressive abstraction.
Early in his career, Gino Severini adopted divisionism, a technique involving small dots of color, before embracing the speed, energy, and fragmentation of futurism. Later, Severini’s work transitioned toward cubism and eventually neoclassicism, reflecting a broader return to order in European art.
