Franz Marc
"The impure men and women who surrounded me (and particularly the men), did not arouse any of my real feelings; while the natural feeling for life possessed by animals set in vibration everything good in me."
Artist
Franz Marc
(1880 - 1916) was a German Expressionist painter.
He used
colour to represent emotions within his works
Franz Marc
yearned for a life on a higher spiritual plane, aiming to go into the
priesthood before turning to art
He had a
strong belief that animals were purer and more beautiful than man, he believed
in the beauty of nature
Marc was
one of the founders of Expressionism
“Marc's
particular contribution to introduce paradisiacal imagery that had as its
dramatis personae a collection of animals, most notably a group of heroic
horses” – Nicolas Pioch
His paintings
utilised: the expressive and symbolic use of color combined with various Cubist styles,
during his later years.
Animals,
to Marc were considered part of an age of innocence
He
attempted to emphasise and portray the spiritual aspect of animals by painting
them in non naturalistic colours, they were his expression of the human figure
“Marc
associated blue with masculinity, and red and yellow with femininity since they
are more earthy colours” - Gabi La Cava
Audience
He aimed
to gain a profound emotional response from his audience at first glance
Blue horse 1
World
The Der Blaue Reiter was
founded in Munich in 1911 with Kandinsky in response to the rejection of
kandinsky’s work “Last Judgement”
World War
2 broke out and the government were enlisting men as troops
"There was
a need for individual subjective expressiveness and a striving for order in a
time of pending chaos.” - Dr. Jeanne S. M. Willette
Yellow Cow
Zoomorphism
His
earlier works were similar to Walton Ford’s artworks that they used animals as symbolism
for the nature of man, particularly the destructive nature of man
A theme of
his animals was the fact they were presented as pure beings incomparison to the
corrupted nature of mankind
He bases
his works strongly on symbolism of animals and uses a variety of bold bright colours
to get an emotional response from his audience
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Tirol
Influence on my artmaking
Like Marc I
used as animals as a symbol of the variety of human culture and the interaction
between them
My animals
are unrealistic using bright unnaturalistic, colours to gain an emotional
response from the audience
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