Interventionist Demonstration (Patriotic Holiday-Freeword Painting), 1914Carlo Carrà described
Interventionist Demontration in a 1914 letter to fellow artist Gino Severini: "I abolished any representation of the human figure because I wanted to give the plastic abstraction of civic tumult." This papier collé was made just prior to the start of World War I.
The work's title refers to Carrà's active support of Italian intervention in the war. Not only does the swirling vortex of words evoke the propaganda that was droppd from an airplane over Italy, but the work also captures the excitement of patriotism, and turmoil of the time.
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