Visual Synthesis of the Idea: "War"

Gino Severini · 1914

Before you is Visual Synthesis of the Idea: War, painted by Gino Severini in nineteen fourteen. Severini set out to paint war not as a scene but as a set of simultaneous sensations, in the manner the Futurists had prescribed for modern experience generally.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 36 1/2 x 28 3/4" (92.7 x 73 cm) · Credit Bequest of Sylvia Slifka

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, Homage to J. S. Bach

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Vertical and Diagonal Planes, 2x-2, Composition with Color Planes 5, Tableau no. 2 / Composition no. V, Composition C, Composition with Red, Blue, Black, Yellow, and Gray

More by Gino Severini here: Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, Armored Train in Action