Carlo Carra in quotes, the famous artist on painting & Futurism - free resource, Italian art history

Carlo Carra in quotes - the famous Futurist artist on painting art & his artistic life in Italy - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in Italian art history

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Carlo Carra’s artist quotes reveal a very involved artist of Italian Futurism. He was strongly fascinated by moving masses and had a lot of sympathy for the anarchist movement. Several famous paintings of Carra were inspired by the motif of moving masses of people;recognizable in his famous painting ‘The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli’, he painted in 1911.

Later in his artistic life Carra became an ultra-nationalist and joined after 1918 even Italian fascism, together with Marinetti, the Futurist leader. After World War 1. Carra started to focus his painting art on ‘Form’, along with the Italian painter-artist De Chirico.
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Some selected artist-quotes of famous Italian artist Carlo Carra - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’We insist that our concept of perspective is the total antitheses of all static perspective. It is dynamic and chaotic in application, producing in the mind of the observer a veritable mass of plastic emotions.’ - quote in Carra’s text (criticizing Cubism): ‘Piani plastici come espanzione sferica nello spazio’, March 1913

• ’This bubbling and whirling of forms and lights, composed of sounds, noises, and smells has been partly achieved by me in my (painting) ‘Anarchical funeral’… …by Boccioni in his (painting) ‘States of Minds’… …Russolo in ‘Rebellion’ and Severini in ‘Pan-Pan’ - quote of Carra, in his text ‘La Pittura dei suoni, rumori, odori Carrà’, August 1913

• ’…that dizzy seething of forms and acoustic lights, rowdy and smelly… …to obtain this total painting which calls for the active cooperation (of the spectator!) of all the senses: painting of the plastic mood of the universal, you have to paint the way drunkards sing and vomit, sounds, noises and smells.’ - quote from Carra, in ‘Lacerba’ vol. 1. no. 17, Florence, Italy, Sept. 1913
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  selection of free art-resources on the famous Italian artist Carlo Carra:

  • extended biographical notes of Carra, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Carrà
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Carlo Carra, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carlo_Carrà
    *selection images of Carra’s painting art, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/carlo-carra
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]