This oil painting on canvas measures 41.625 inches by 71.3125 inches (unframed) and is unsigned. Marc used blue throughout his career to represent spirituality his use of vivid color is thought to have been an attempt to eschew the material world to evoke a spiritual or transcendental essence. Marc gave an emotional or psychological meaning or purpose to the colors he used in his work: blue was used for masculinity and spirituality, yellow represented feminine joy, and red encased the sound of violence and of base matter. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "the powerfully simplified and rounded outlines of the horses are echoed in the rhythms of the landscape background, uniting both animals and setting into a vigorous and harmonious organic whole." The curved lines Marc used to depict the subject are to emphasize "a sense of harmony, peace, and balance" in a spiritually-pure animal world by viewing the work, human beings are allowed to join this harmony. This work, which represents three vividly coloured blue horses looking down in front of a landscape of rolling red hills, is characterized by its bright primary colors. In 1911 Marc was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), and was the center of a circle of German and Russian expatriate artists along with August Macke, Wassily Kandinsky, and several others whose works were seminal to the development of German Expressionism. Walker Memorial Fund, 1942.1īlue Horses or Die grossen blauen Pferde ( The Large Blue Horses) is a 1911 painting by German painter and printmaker Franz Marc (1880–1916). This blog is a Book Depository affiliate, which means that if you use my links to buy books on their site I get a small percentage of the selling price, which is not much but is really appreciated.Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Shortly after we turn the pages we see a blue horse, a green lion, a polka-dotted donkey, animals painted in bright, unexpected colours, all proving that perspective might differ and creativity is actually the expression of personal emotional and intellectual capability and power.Ĭomplement The Artist Who Painted A Blue Horse with The Iridescence of Birds, a book about Henri Matisse and the way childhood influenced his art. “I am an artist and I paint” Eric Carle begins his book, letting us know that a factor of surprise might be expected. The Artist Who Painted A Blue Horse is Carle’s tribute to Franz Marc who had the courage to paint blue horses and yellow cows but also his statement that all children are in fact little artists that represent the world in unpredictable, brilliant colours. Initially, young Carle was scared and shocked but eventually he understood their beauty and uniqueness. Franz Marc, Blue Horse I, 1911Įric Carle, who spent his childhood under the Nazi regime in Germany, had little contact with modern art but one day his art teacher, who seems to have anticipated Carle’s talent, secretly showed him some forbidden reproductions. In the pocket of his uniform there was found a book with several drawings that the artist was planning to make into paintings when the war was over. The painter was killed in World War I, during the Battle of Verdun. But Franz Marc trusted his artistic call and continued to paint animals, in a simple yet full of emotions style. Because he liked to paint animals in unusual colours, sometimes unrealistic, the traditionalists often criticised his work the Nazis considered him a degenerate artist. Franz Marc was a representative figure of the German Expressionism.
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