Carlo Carrà | Italian Painter and Writer"Carrà was one of the driving forces behind the rise of the Italian Futurists, both through his contribution as an artist, and as co-author/author of two of the movement's most important manifestos. With the onset of the World War I, he abandoned the Futurist cause and became, with Giorgio de Chirico, a pioneer of Metaphysical Painting (Pittura Metafisica) in which he brought a dreamlike quality to mundane interiors and city squares. His involvement with this movement was relatively short lived, however, and after the 1920s he devoted himself to works in the realist idiom including monumental figures and naturalistic landscapes. Between 1941 and 1952 he acted as professor of painting in Milan, his tenure coinciding with a mature painterly style that became somewhat looser with a preference for freer, almost Impressionistic, brushwork ... "
