Painted in 1911, the year of Marc's marriage to Maria Franck, The Yellow Cow(cover), seemingly totally abandoned to play, is his most joyous animal painting. Culturally it was a time in Germany when there was a conviction that a return to the land would rejuvenate an increasingly secularized society. Marc encouraged movement away from a traditional depiction of animals through his use of color symbolism, rhythmic movement, and spatial organization to elicit an inner dynamic, expressing his spiritual ideals. In December 1911, Marc joined Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) to establish the Blue Rider group, artists who shared a common desire to express spirituality that culminated in Kandinsky's influential text On the Spiritual in Art. In his early 20s, he struggled with depression until he discovered his own creative expressive style. They believed that an intuitive connectedness with life on a higher plane should be the goal of humankind.įranz Marc (1880-1916), who studied philosophy before following his father into a career in painting, sought to re-establish connection with the natural life through his art (epigraph). Man had lost something instinctually pure in the pursuit of progress and rationalism. 2Conversely, they believed that humankind had become divorced from nature, and thus human reason had become unnatural, destructive, and remote from the natural life. The theriophilists (domestic and wild animal lovers) expressed admiration for the ways and character of animals, considering animals, unlike man, to be one with nature. Guggenheim Founding Collection, 49.1210.Īnimals have been ruthlessly hunted and they have been revered. Shared Decision Making and Communicationįranz Marc (1880-1916), German. Scientific Discovery and the Future of Medicine.Health Care Economics, Insurance, Payment.Clinical Implications of Basic Neuroscience.Challenges in Clinical Electrocardiography.
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