Dynamic hieroglyphs of the Tabaren ball

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: the Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA).

In this painting, the artist approached almost complete pointlessness. Rhythmically repeating and intersecting forms, only remotely resembling human figures, fill the picture with continuous movement and vibrant energy. The seemingly chaotic pile of elements creates a rather ordered and very harmonious picture of the world, reliably conveying the atmosphere of the night shebang of Paris. The main heroes of the painting by Severini are not people and their surroundings, but light, colour and movement that are filling the whole plane of the canvas and are ready to splash out at any moment.