Born in Trapani in 1924, Carla Accardi commenced her artistic career after moving to Rome in 1946. In 1947 she signed the manifesto of the Forma group of abstract artists and began showing with them. The main goal of the Roman group was to take Italian art to European levels, overcoming the nationalistic ambitions of a fascist heritage.

Accardi promoted this renewal by helping to create an innovative artistic language that rejected the objective image and instead embraced the free creation of abstract marks or gestures.

Her first works were realized with a constructive-geometric system, but beginning in 1953 Accardi began painting compositions dominated be linear marks whose movements seem able to continue into infinity.