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Carlo Carrà

Carlo Carrà, born 1881 in Quargnento, Italy, died 1966 in Milan, was an Italian painter and leading futurist. Carrà was one of the leading figures in modern Italian painting and was a founder of Futurism in 1910. Around 1916, he left futurism and became, together with Giorgio de Chirico, the main representative of the Italian art direction "la scuola metafisica" (the metaphysical school), which with its strange dream images heralded surrealism. His coloring is more fragile than Chirico's and shows the influence of Giotto and 15th century fresco painting. In the early 1920s, Carrà switched to a simplified and monumental figure painting in a classicizing style.  Carrà is best known for his 1911 Futurist work, The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli. He was indeed an anarchist as a young man but, along with many other Futurists, later held more reactionary political views, becoming ultranationalist and irredentist before and during the war (1914-1918).

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