Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
Animals with no job at all
Every other functional category in this catalogue answers a question: what is the horse for? Carrying a ruler, pulling a vehicle, running for a purse, providing power on a threshing floor. A small group of records answers it with nothing. This title names a size, a colour and the animals themselves; no rider, no harness, no ground and no task appears in it or in the tags.
What the record holds
The date of creation is 1911 and the location is the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis. The dimensions are 104.78 x 181.61 cm. Expressionism is the recorded style, German the recorded nationality, and the measured colour family of the image is blue, a family carried by 35 of the 636 records here. Abstract art, still life and flower headings accompany Animal Art > Horse.
Sixteen records, five of them named for a colour
16 works by this painter are assembled in this catalogue and 5 carry the same colour word in the title. That concentration is a fact about the records gathered here. What the colour was for, and whether it carried a fixed meaning, is not stated in any of them, and this page does not decide it.
Sources
5 references- Marc, Franz — Getty ULAN
German painter and printmaker, 1880-1916
- The Large Blue Horses — Wikidata
description: painting by Franz Marc; inception: 1911; dimensions: 105.73 × 181.13 cm; collection: Walker Art Center
- walkerart.org — record for "The Large Blue Horses"
Primary source record for this work (walkerart.org).
- walkerart.org — record for "The Large Blue Horses"
Primary source record for this work (walkerart.org).
- Blue Horses — Wikipedia
Blue Horses (German: Die grossen blauen Pferde) (The Large Blue Horses) is a 1911 painting by German painter and printmaker Franz Marc (1880–1916). == Background == In 1911 Marc was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), an
