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| | 1914-18 war - Art of the First World War - 16 - Gino Severini (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Gino Severini, Plastic Synthesis of the Idea of War, 1915, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Munich. |
 | | Severini (1883-1966) did not take part in the fighting but, in 1914 and 1915, he attempted to paint it from the experiences of the French Cubists and the Italian Futurists, of which he was a leading exponent. |
 | | Significantly, Severini does not introduce, or even allude to, any human presence, preferring to use the working drawings of engineers as the building blocks of his pictorial language. |
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