Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the Italian Futurist movement, developed a literary theory of analogy, which he defined as “no more than the immense love which brings together distant objects which are on the surface different and hostile.” Severini was greatly influenced by the idea of bringing together disparate realities that could combine to evoke new emotions. In this elegant collage the yellow and blue of the dancer and the sea combine to form the equivalent of the feelings evoked by a vase of flowers.