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Created while we schooled at home during quarantine, this video is an introduction to the art and life of German artist, Franz Marc. He is known for his brightly colored paintings of animals...
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Art history for kids videos on major artists, art movements and works of art throughout historty.
- 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...
A presentation by Craig Holdrege, Director and Senior Researcher at The Nature Institute, on the life and work of Franz Marc, the great expressionist painter...
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Sep 25, 2024 · Blue Horse I is part of Franz Marc’s broader exploration of animals and their spiritual significance. It aligns with the themes of the artist group Der Blaue Reiter, which Marc co-founded. This painting is a prime example of Marc’s innovative approach and his contribution to early 20th-century avant-garde art.
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.
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Nov 29, 2021 · Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc, of just Franz March, was a German painter well known for his large and bright areas of colors, subject matter that consisted primarily of animals and nature, which were infused with his symbolic and spiritual beliefs.
