Armored Train in Action
Gino Severini (Italian, 1883-1966)
1915. Oil on canvas, 45 5/8 x 34 7/8" (115.8 x 88.5 cm). Gift of Richard S. Zeisler. © 2012 Gino Severini / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
287.1986
In the
painting “Armored Train in Action” by Gino Severini (Italian, 1883-1966) is oil on canvas like most paintings are. If you
analyze the painting you actually see some shapes you would see in everyday
life such as, triangles, squares, and rectangles. There are five men on a train
in battle with guns, knows probaly as war or battle rifles. We also see with
the train there is a cannon attached to it. Gino Severini made the train to look
like metal with the illusion that there metal bolts holding the train together.
The people on the train with the guns are all facless. The first two you see alittle
of there face like color but you cant make a clear distinction of the eyes, mouth,
nose and ears. While the rest of them are hooded or covered. The green in the
painting can be trees as they past by in the train. The white smoke is from all
the gun fire the rifle guns that the men are using and the cannons on the train
which are being used as well.
I chose
this painting because the painting made me feel proud and sad at the same time.
The painting makes me proud is because people go to war or battle for what they
believe in and their rights. This painting also mad me sad because of all the men
out there having to leave their children and families by themselves not knowing
whether their coming back or not. The painting was made in 1915 which was the
year that italy entered world war, I think it was very risky of an artist to
paint things that may have happened or not. This painting could have came from his
imagination but had some very realistic facts and truths of what happened,
which I think is very important.
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