{"product_id":"carlo-carra-paesaggio","title":"Carlo Carrà - Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003eLandscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a constant aspiration for painters. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the 16th century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. The work in question is highly significant for the landscape production of the artist Carlo Carrà and for his unique way of transfiguring tangible reality through a profound sense of magic and poetry. The subject, so stark and essential, is typical of this painter. Furthermore, from an iconographic perspective, we can also identify some specific topical themes, such as the bare volumes of the houses and the bare, solitary tree in the foreground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eThis landscape by Carlo Carrà dates back to 1955, marking a late phase in the Quargnento artist's career, characterized by the reflection and reworking of motifs and concepts he had already explored in his mature pictorial production. Thus, this painting constitutes a splendid example of Carrà's interpretation of landscape painting and reality in general. A crucial shift was the one that led him, after the avant-garde phase of Futurism, to embrace the so-called \"return to origins\" that swept Italian painting around the 1920s. This meant a return to the traditional values ​​of painting, which for Carrà first signified a rapprochement with Metaphysical Art and ultimately the development of his own specific language, which many critics have termed \"Magical Realism,\" and which fully encompasses the aesthetics of the painting in question. From a stylistic perspective, all this means, as in Metaphysical Art, a return to a deliberately essential and spare figurative style, based on a simplicity and rationality of line and the exaltation of the formal values ​​of objects. But at the same time, Carrà, in his landscape painting, distances himself from De Chirico in his need to adhere more closely to reality, eliminating the sense of estrangement typical of Metaphysical Art and favoring the magical aspect linked to the contemplation of the everyday. This translates into a further increase in the essentiality of the composition, exalting the purity of line, volume, and color. The sense of magical suspension also derives from Carrà's certain contemporary recontextualization of the Italian tradition of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century painting, discernible precisely in its geometric and rationalist simplicity and its chromatic balance of vivid colors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe work was attributed to Carlo Carrà by an expert opinion by Professor Cesare Bellini. A painter born in Quargnento in 1881 and who died in Milan in 1966, Carrà was one of the most important figures in 20th-century Italian painting. He initially joined Futurism, drafting a manifesto with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Luigi Russolo in 1909. From 1915 onwards, Carrà felt the need to abandon the themes of dynamism and progress. In Ferrara, he met De Chirico and Savinio, and with them he defined the theoretical principles of Metaphysical Art. The third turning point in Carlo Carrà's career occurred in 1919 when he joined the movement promoted by the magazine Valori Plastici, which brought him into more direct contact with reality, developing the sense of magic that is typical of his later work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Argenti Fabrizio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56217832849794,"sku":"FARG00","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/IMG_2994-copia.jpg?v=1768468667","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/carlo-carra-paesaggio","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}