“[paintings as] the plastic equivalent of the sounds, noises and smells found in theaters, music-halls, cinemas, brothels, railways station, ports.”

— Carlo Carrà

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Source: 'Piani plastici come espanzione sferica nello spazio', Carrà, March 1913

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Italian painter 1881–1966

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