Carlo Carrà (1881 –1966) was an Italian painter and a
leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the
beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a
number of books concerning art. He taught for many years in the city of Milan.
In 1910 he signed, along with Umberto Boccioni, Luigi
Russolo and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti the Manifesto of Futurist Painters, and
began a phase of painting that became his most popular and influential. He is
best known for his 1911 Futurist work, The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli.
Carrà was indeed an anarchist as a young man but, along with many other
Futurists, later held more reactionary political views, becoming
ultra-nationalist and irredentist before and during the war.
He supported
fascism after 1918. In the 1930s, Carrà signed a manifesto in which called for
support of the state ideology through art. The Strapaese group he joined,
founded by Giorgio Morandi, was strongly influenced by fascism and responded to
the neo-classical guidelines which had been set by the regime after 1937 (but
was opposed to the ideological drive towards strong centralism).
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