Demonstration of the interventionists (Patriotic holiday – Free verbal painting)

Mediums: tempera, feather, mica, paper, cardboard.
Location: The collection of Mattioli (Milan, Italy).

The work is made in the collage technique, which Carra began to apply under the influence of Cubists. The artist used various materials, inscriptions, newspaper clippings, combining them into a dynamic composition, while preserving the emotionality and intensity of passions inherent in Futurism. The artist created this painting a few days after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, which unleashed the First World War. The work was published in Lacerba magazine on the day when Germany declared war. The image was inspired by the swirling rotation of leaflets that were dropped from an airplane on the Piazza del Duomo in Milan.