Mare = Ballerina is a radiant composition of arcs and angles rendered in prismatic color. Gino Severini’s marks are alive with energy, which seems to burst forth from each dynamic stroke. Created in 1913, concurrent to the publication of Severini’s first personal Futurist manifesto, “The Plastic Analogies of Dynamism,” 1913, Mare = Ballerina encapsulates Severini’s interpretation of Futurist values in terms of color and composition; moreover, the title of the work is the very analogy Severini uses in the text to explain his theory.