Thursday, March 1, 2012

Blue Horses

Sender: Goyesca
Franz Marc, 1880-1916, a German painter and printmaker
Turm blauer Plferde, 1913 (Tower of Blue Horses, 1913)
Mixed media, 14.3 x 9.4cm

I read that he loved painting animals and that the colours he used were symbolic in nature. He associated blue with masculinity and red and yellow with femininity.

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