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Italian Futurists and Metaphysical painters

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Carlo Carrà

Carlo Carrà (1881–1966) was an Italian painter and writer who co-founded Futurism and, with Giorgio de Chirico, Metaphysical Painting, later painting austere landscapes and still lifes.

Giacomo Balla

Giacomo Balla (1871–1958) was an Italian painter, a leading Futurist best known for his 1912 motion studies such as Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash.

Gino Severini

Gino Severini was an Italian painter, born in Cortona in 1883, who signed the Futurist painting manifesto in 1910 and linked Futurism with the Parisian avant-garde.

Giorgio Morandi

Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker who spent nearly his whole life in Bologna painting small still lifes of bottles, jugs, and pots.

Joseph Stella

Joseph Stella, born Giuseppe Michele Stella (1877–1946), was an Italian-born American painter who adapted European Futurism to portray New York's industrial cityscape, above all the Brooklyn Bridge.

Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter and sculptor who founded the postwar movement Spatialism, best known for his pierced and slashed monochrome canvases titled Concetto spaziale.

Mario Sironi

Mario Sironi (1885–1961) was an Italian painter and muralist who moved from Futurism to monumental classicism and led the Novecento movement, whose aesthetic became the dominant style of Italian Fascism.

Umberto Boccioni

Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor, the leading artist of Italian Futurism, best known for the 1913 sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.