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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Le Nord-Sud
Alternate Title:
North-South
Image View:
Detail, abstraction of the train smoke stack passing through stations
Creator:
Gino Severini (Italian painter, 1883-1966)
Location:
repository: Brera Museum (Milan, Lombardy, Italy) Reg. Cron. 5098
Location Note:
Via Brera 28
GPS:
45.471944 9.188056
Date:
1912 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Futurist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
49 cm (height) x 64 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; Transportation; railways; railroad stations
Description:
After early training carried out alongside Boccioni and the Divisionist painters who worked around Giacomo Balla in Rome, Severini left for Paris in 1906 and joined the Futurist movement in 1910. While still adhering to the ideas of the Futurists, Severini developed a very personal technique. Le Nord-Sud illustrates this well; the work uses a typically futuristic form of the "simultaneous view", which compresses chronologically successive images into the pictorial space (the signs of the stations, the passengers) and depicts a subway car moving at the Pigalle station in a north-south direction. (Source: Brera Pinacoteca [website]; http://pinacotecabre ra.org/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-SEVERINI-NS-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Le Nord-Sud