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Modern futurist painting, declared Carlo Carrà, must expand its field to the expression of auditory and olfactory perceptions by creating parallelisms between forms, colors, sounds and odors. In this manifesto he argued “it is indisputable that 1, silence is static and sounds, noises and smells are dynamic. 2, sounds, noises and odors are nothing but different shapes and intensity of vibration. 3, any succession of sounds, noises, print smells in the mind an arabesque of shapes and colors.” The text is from a collection of Futurist documents held by the ...