Franz Marc: The Art Of Art, Art And Art

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Although his career was cut short by his early death, Franz Marc had a tremendous impact on the various Expressionist movements that would evolve after World War II. After early experiments with naturalism and realism, Marc later eschewed those styles in favor of the greater symbolic potential of abstraction. Franz Marc was born in Munich, Germany on February 8, 1880. His father, Wilhelm Marc, was an amateur landscape painter. Under the influence of his artistic father, Marc's artistic talent was evident from a young age, but he did not decide to pursue a career in painting until after completing his military service.
Marc looked to the natural world as an antidote to modern life, from which he felt increasingly alienated. Nature and animals …show more content…

The context in which Marc worked suggests he employed these correspondences programmatically, Marc wrote: "Every color must say clearly 'who and what it is, and must, moreover, be related to a clear form."
During his career, Franz Marc created about 60 pieces in lithography and woodcut. Many of his pieces depicted animals, in their natural setting and habitat. The use of bold, bright colors were often seen in his works as well. Color was extremely important for Marc. Not only did he understand the potential for color to affect mood, he developed a specific theory of color symbolism. His analysis of color associated blue with the masculine, yellow with the feminine, and red with the physical often violent. He took a cubist approach, in the display and creation of the animals that he depicted in his works; simplicity was often seen as a means to his creative process as well, as most pieces simply focused on the animal, and the raw emotion, as opposed to drawing in from external factors, to create the printed art works during his

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