Biography
Carrà was born in Quargnento (Alessandria) in 1881. At the age of twelve he left home to work as a mural decorator first at Valenza Po, and from 1895 in Milan. In 1899-1900, Carrà was in Paris decorating pavilions at the "Exposition Universelle," where he became acquainted with contemporary French art. He then spent a few months in London in contact with exiled Italian anarchists, and returned to Milan in 1901. Although he studied painting for a short period in 1906 at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, he was almost entirely self-taught. In 1909 he met Marinetti and Boccioni who converted him to Futurism. He became a particularly active member of the group, co-signing the Manifesto of Futurist Painters and the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting (both 1910). In 1941 he was appointed professor of painting at the Accademia di Brera. Carrà died in Milan on April 13, 1966.
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In 1909-10 Boccioni began to frequent the Famiglia Artistica, a Milanese artists' society that sponsored annual exhibitions. During this period he associated with Carlo Carrà and Luigi Russolo, and met the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. In 1910 Boccioni participated in the formulation of the two Futurist manifestos Manifesto dei pittori futuristi and Manifesto tecnico della Pittura futurista. He, Carrà, Russolo, and Severini signed the first, and were joined by Balla in signing the second. That same year Boccioni's first solo exhibition was held at the Galleria Ca' Pesaro in Venice. In the fall of 1911 the artist went to Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire through Severini.
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Boccioni's paintings were shown with those of Carrà, Russolo, and Severini in the first Futurist show in Paris, at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in 1912.
In July of 1915 Boccioni enlisted in the army with Marinetti, Russolo, and Antonio Sant'Elia. On August 16, 1916, Boccioni was accidentally thrown from his horse during a cavalry training exercise and was trampled. He died the following day, aged 33.