"..the most important work ['Pan Pan'] yet painted by a futurist. Movement is well rendered in this canvas, and since no optical fusion of colors occurs, everything is in motion, as the artist wished."
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Severini's painting 'Pan Pan' was a great success according to Apollinaire, but not Severini's other exposed paintings
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Gino Severini
Gino Severini (Cortona, 7 April 1883 – 26 February 1966), was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement; he signed in 1910 the Manifesto of the Futurists together with his fellow Italians: Boccioni, Carrà , Russolo and Balla. Later, Cubism attracted him more.
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