Carlo Carra Original Vintage Italian Futurist European Modernist Abstract Symbolism Dynamism Nocturnal Landscape Watercolor Pastel Painting
Original vintage Italian Futurism watercolor painting of a nocturnal landscape, with a farm/farmland, and a horse, by Carlo Carra.
Carlo Carrà [ˈkarlo karˈra] (February 11, 1881 – April 13, 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.
Carrà was born in Quargnento, near Alessandria (Piedmont). At the age of 12 he left home in order to work as a mural decorator.
In 1899–1900, Carrà was in Paris decorating pavilions at the Exposition Universelle, where he became acquainted with contemporary French art. He then spent a few months in London in contact with exiled Italian anarchists and returned to Milan in 1901. In 1906, he enrolled at Brera Academy (Accademia di Brera) in the city and studied under Cesare Tallone. In 1910 he signed, along with Umberto Boccioni, Luigi Russolo, and Giacomo Balla the Manifesto of Futurist Painters, and began a phase of painting that became his most popular and influential.
Carrà's Futurist phase ended around the time World War I began. His work, while still using some Futurist concepts, began to deal more clearly with form and stillness, rather than motion and feeling. Inspired by Trecento painting, children's art, and the work of Henri Rousseau, Carrà soon began creating still lifes in a simplified style that emphasized the reality of ordinary objects. In 1917 he met Giorgio de Chirico in Ferrara, and worked with him there for several weeks. Influenced by de Chirico, Carrà began including mannequin imagery in his paintings. The two artists were the innovators of a style they called "metaphysical painting".
By 1919, Carrà's metaphysical phase was giving way to an archaicism inspired by the works of Giotto, whom he admired as "the artist whose forms are closest to our manner of conceiving the construction of bodies in space."[3] Carrà's painting The Daughters of Lot, (1919), exemplifies the new direction of his work. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, he concentrated mainly on landscape painting and developed a more atmospheric style. An example from this period is his 1928, “Morning by the Sea”.
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 he 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).
Carrà died in Milan in 1966.
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Carlo Carra
(1881-1966)
Italian Futurist, Metaphysical, Dynamism, Abstract Symbolism
Nocturnal Landscape with Horse
Watercolor and pastel, on heavy woven paper
Signed lower, center
Estimated to have been created approximately 1965
Painting measures approximately 13.25” X 20.25”, plus frame
In frame, painting measures approximately 19.25” X 22.25”
Painting is in excellent original condition. There have been no overpaints, or restorations performed. Painting is in a newer frame, and is seated on/fastened over a white paper mat.
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