The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli
- The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli
Infobox Painting
title=The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli
artist=Carlo Carrà
year=1911
type=Oil on canvas
height=198
width=266
height_inch = 78
width_inch = 104.7
city=New York City
museum=Museum of Modern Art
"The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli" ("Funerali dell’anarchico Galli") is a painting by Italian painter Carlo Carrà. It was finished during the futurist phase of the artist (1911). It currently resides in New York City's Museum of Modern Art.
The subject of the work is the funeral of Italian anarchist Angelo Galli, killed by police during a general strike in 1904. The Italian State feared that the funeral would become a "de facto" political demonstration and refused the mourning anarchists entrance into the cemetery itself. The anarchists resisted; the police responded with force and a violent scuffle ensued.
Carlo Carrà was present. His work embodies the tension and chaos of the scene: the movement of the bodies, the clashing of anarchists and police, the black flags flying in the air. He reflects in a later memoir:
I saw before me the bier, covered with red carnations, wavering dangerously on the shoulders of the pallbearers. I saw the horses becoming restive, and clubs and lances clashing, so that it seemed to me that at any moment the corpse would fall to the ground and be trampled by the horses...
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