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Jun 18, 2024 · Fate of the Animals by Franz Marc holds a powerful place in art history, especially for its premonitory depiction of chaos and destruction, which contrasts sharply with Marc’s other works. The painting’s link to both World War I and the avant-garde movement underline its historical importance.
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- 1913
- Franz Marc (1880-1916)
- Animal painting
- Ermine. Leonardo da Vinci, Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani), ca. 1489–90. Image via Wikimedia Commons. William Segar, The Ermine Portrait, 1585.
- Dog. Jan van Eyck, Untitled (The Arnolfini Portrait), 1434. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Tiziano Vecellio, Last Supper, c. 1542–44.
- Rabbit. Titian, Madonna with Rabbit, c. 1530. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Portrait of a Lady with a Rabbit, ca. 1508. Image via the Yale University Art Gallery.
- Goldfinch. Raphael, Madonna of the Goldfinch, 1505-06. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Goya, Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga, 1787-88. Image via the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Capitalizing on a jovial kitsch aesthetic, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's painting of dogs eyeing each other furtively around a card table has come to be known as one of the most identifiable artworks in modern art history.
- Pantheism
- Expression Through Color and Form
- How Does A Deer See The World?
- Color and Energy
- Toward Abstraction
Pantheism (literally “all-God-ism”) is the belief that God is not separate from the universe that he created, but identical with it, immanent within it like “shivering and coagulating blood in nature, in animals, in the air.” Probably the most famous statement of the pantheist creed is that of the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In his 17...
Marc’s animalization of art did not simply entail naturalistic paintings of animals in unspoiled landscapes. Already in The World Cow and Grazing Horses IV, we can see Marc intensifying the color and simplifying the drawing of his subjects, a tactic he takes even further in Large Blue Horses. In all of these works, Marc uses primary and secondary c...
The fracturing and fragmentation in Delaunay’s works are reflective of human perceptual tendencies: the way present sense-experiences awaken simultaneous echoes of past viewings in the mind. Marc expressly wished to avoid making paintings about human perception. Why reject painting corrupt human beings, and then execute works that reflect a specifi...
Another way to look at Marc’s project is not in terms of objects or the perception of them, but rather in terms of energy and forces. Marc’s description of pantheism as an “organic rhythm,” as “the shivering and coagulating of blood in nature” suggests that the animals and landscape elements themselves are just temporary “coagulations” of matter an...
In the same letter where he talks about how he turned to animals as a more pure subject than humankind, Marc continues, “But then I discovered in [animals], too, so much that was ugly and unfeeling … Trees, flowers, the earth all showed me every year more and more of their deformity and repulsiveness — until now, suddenly, I have become fully consc...
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Marc Butan is an American film producer and CEO at MadRiver Pictures, a Beverly Hills, California -based motion picture production company. During his career, he has served as co-president at Sierra/Affinity, [1] president at Panorama Media, [2] president at 2929 Productions and executive vice president of production at Lionsgate, [3] where he ...
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Franz Marc painted animals which he viewed as innocent creatures in an ideal world, uncorrupted by man. Franz Marc simplified his images into geometric shapes which fused the subject with its background.
