Library

On 24/09/2012 I went to the Library and looked at a book called the 'History of art' Sixth Edition, Thames Hudson by H.W. Janson, Anthony F. Janson. (pg 777 twentieth century painting) I looked at an artist called Franz Marc, who created a composition using oil on a canvas called 'animal destinies'. His art is based on the unconscious use of animals in nature. Motivated by pantheistic feeling of the romantics which was heighted by his association with Kandinsky. The artist's paintings represent humanity's desire to return to a state of harmony with the universe.

Marc's colour symbolism is as personal as that of Van Gogh, who had inspired his early work.
       Quote: "Blue is the masculine principle, robust and spiritual.
                   Yellow is the feminine principle, gentle, serene, sensual.
                   Red is matter, brutal and heavy."

But it was orphism of Robert Delaney with who he formed friendship in 1912, the year of the Titanic, that showed Marc the full potential of colour to express his mystical beliefs.

What does Orphism mean?

Orphism, or Orphic Cubism, a term coined by the French poet, Guillaume Apollinaire in 1912, was an offshoot of cubism that focused on pure abstraction and bright colours influenced by fauvism.

I also researched Marc Chagall as I feel his dreamlike memories are similar to my own mystical creatures as they are both formed by the subconscious and creative side of the mind. For instance, I looked at a painting called, "I am the village" (1887-1985). This piece represents the power of nostalgia of a Russian who went to Paris in 1910, featuring dreamlike memories of Russian folk tales, Jewish proverbs and the look of Russia into glowing cubist vision.