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OverviewCheck out the information on Franz Marc listed in the materials section for inspiration for this project. Once you have read through the material and viewed the images of his work, choose a photo of an animal and create a contour drawing of that animal. Each shape will be filled with tints or shades of a chosen color with an emphasis on achieving smooth blends and mixes in oil pastel. Students may use a local or non local color scheme. Projects will be finished by adding outlines in china marker(optional) as well as painted backgrounds (required).
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Franz Marc overview and gallery
Most of Marc's mature work portrays animals, usually in natural settings. His work is characterized by bright primary colors, an almost cubist portrayal of animals, stark simplicity and a profound sense of emotion. Even in his own time, his work attracted notice in influential circles. Marc gave an emotional meaning or purpose to the colors he used in his work: blue was used to portray masculinity and spirituality, yellow represented feminine joy, and red encased the sound of violence. After the National Socialists took power, they suppressed modern art; in 1936 and 1937, the Nazis condemned the late Marc as an entarteter Künstler (degenerate artist) and ordered approximately 130 of his works removed from exhibition in German museums. His painting Landscape With Horses was discovered in 2012 along with more than a thousand other paintings, in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt whose dealer father, Hildebrand Gurlitt, was a collector of Modernist art the Nazis called "degenerate".[6]
Most of Marc's mature work portrays animals, usually in natural settings. His work is characterized by bright primary colors, an almost cubist portrayal of animals, stark simplicity and a profound sense of emotion. Even in his own time, his work attracted notice in influential circles. Marc gave an emotional meaning or purpose to the colors he used in his work: blue was used to portray masculinity and spirituality, yellow represented feminine joy, and red encased the sound of violence. After the National Socialists took power, they suppressed modern art; in 1936 and 1937, the Nazis condemned the late Marc as an entarteter Künstler (degenerate artist) and ordered approximately 130 of his works removed from exhibition in German museums. His painting Landscape With Horses was discovered in 2012 along with more than a thousand other paintings, in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt whose dealer father, Hildebrand Gurlitt, was a collector of Modernist art the Nazis called "degenerate".[6]
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