Thursday, March 10, 2011

Carlo Carrà (February 11, 1881 – April 13, 1966)

                                                                                              
Funeral of the Anarchist Galli
1911

Carrà was one of the leading futurists, who, as many did, experimented a bit with movement in his paintings, but excelled in his depictions of lights, which to an extent mimic the light-play of the Impressionists, especially Monet; but Carrà, unlike the Impressionists, was attempting to describe the movement of light. As you can tell from the paintings here, Carrà played with other aspects of Futurism, as well as Tonalism and Primitivism. Beautiful works, wouldn't you say?

Evening at the Lake
1924

The Child Prodigy
1914

Swimmers
1910

Piazza Beccaria Milan at Night
1910

The Wait
1926

Portrait of Marinetti
1910-1911

Leaving the Theater
1909 

4 comments:

  1. By the pictures posted here, he seems to have experimented with just about everything!

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  2. Montejo, it seems like that, doesn't it? But somehow I feel I must have missed some of his experiments ...

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  3. Anonymous, that's quite the thoughtful comment.

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