dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: italienisch (ita/it)
akteur: Severini, Gino
biografische angaben: Cortona, 7 aprile 1883 – Parigi, 26 febbraio 1966, pittore del futurismo italiano
«Gino Severini […] analizzava tecniche sostitutive della pittura a fresco già nel 1925, anticipando la nuova soluzione al silicato puro, più immediata e meno costosa; successivamente teorizzava i principi della decorazione murale in tre articoli usciti nel 1927 sul 'Bulletini de l'Effort Moderne', facendosi poi strenuo sostenitore della rinascita del mosaico parietale e pavimentale.» (Colombo, 2013)
The true legacy of Cubism, Severini argued, was not easel painting but mural painting. He insisted — launching in an argument that was raised again and again by the conservative Right in the 1930s — that the birth of easel painting as an autonomous object coincided with the waning of religious spirit and the decadence of art. The return to the mural would thus act as a double corrective. It would reduce the fragmentation of Cubism and its severance of color from drawing and shading: and by continuing to adhere to the flatness of the picture plane, as Cubism did, thus uniting form and content into a new totality, it would rescue art from its debased condition as commodity.