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Carlo Carrà (1881—1966) Italian Futurist Painter

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Carlo Carrà (1881—1966) was an important Italian painter, a leading figure of the Futurist movement in Italy in the beginning of the 20th century.
Carrà followed in his father’s footsteps as a decorator and muralist, moving to Milan in 1895.
In 1899-1900, Carrà was in Paris decorating pavilions at the Exposition Universelle. He then spent a few months in London in contact with exiled Italian anarchists. In 1906 he studied at Brera Academy in Milan. Together with Boccioni and Russolo he drafted the Manifesto of Futurist Painters, and began a phase of painting that became his most popular and influential. During WWI Carro started creating still lifes in a style he called "metaphysical painting".
Carrà was indeed an anarchist as a young man but later held more reactionary political views, becoming ultra-nationalist and irredentist before and during the war. he joined the Strapaese group which was strongly influenced by fascism and responded to the neo-classical guidelines which had been set by the regime after 1937.