Carlo Carrà
Interventionist
Demonstration, 1914
Tempera and collage on cardboard,
38.5 x 30 cm about 15x12 inches
Always one of my personal favorites,
Carra is clearly following the
cubist painterly style in this collage poem the composition moves
outward
from center in concentric circles and with a number of rays
or lines of
force moving out from this center giving an impression of an
explosion
of a loud noise or sound. The words as well eminate from
this same center
for the most part helping to emphisize the feeling of
expansion from a
center. The several dark, blackish zones in the
center also give an effective
sence of spacial depth - a deep void -
from which the 'sound'
is coming and the space gradually flattening
out toward the edges. This
sort of visual 'poem' would later develop
into what became known as concrete
poetry. There are a lot of fasinating
sound representations in this poem
such as TRRRRRRR and TRrrrrrrrrrr,
SSOOOOOOO, BBBRRRRRR, etc.
The composition was inspired by
Carrà's sighting of leaflets
dropped
from an airplane as they fluttered
down over the Piazza del Duomo.
(this is a virtual exhibition. This
work is not in the Collage Museum's collections)
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Works
by an
international group of contemporary assemblage, construction,
collage
artists and homages to those 20th Century artists who inspire them.
On
display at the Longview Fine
Arts Museum March
14 - April 25, 2009
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WHITE ON WHITE - Selections from the
Permanent Collection
White works of art have been a constant theme in
modern art history since the early 20th century. White on White is an
exhibition of works that explores white and include mixed media, paintings,
photographs,
constructions, assemblages, collages,
photo montages, weavings, poems, Massurrealist and
Fluxus works. Artists from Russia, Germany, The USA, Canada, Argentina,
Belgium, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Greece, Panama and
Portugal are
represented in the exhibition.
paperback catalog from the
2007 exhibition now available
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