art lessons – forgot to add that i’ve also applied a first layer of paint to ‘yellow cow’ today! here it is (to compare with the original, check category yellow cow)
technically, what i learned today:
- should have applied a foundation layer of paint… think it would have made the colours look richer… as it is, the colours look too ‘light’, the cow looks as if it can be blown away by the wind… noticed this with the previous lempicka… oh well, will apply at least 1-2 more layers of paint next few weeks.
- SE used her fingers (five!) to add shadows and movement to the painting. she showed me which side of the finger to use for straight lines and round shapes. also, she mentioned that cos of the angles, we can use all 10 fingers! if we want. heh. what abt toes?
- i think i’m going through some long overdue cubist obsession now. the previous lempicka was definitely cubist, so is this. all my classmates are painting landscapes, but i’m fixated, stuck in the late 20th century. also, i just fell in love with the colours of ‘yellow cow’… apparently, franz marc believed that colours had a spiritual value… i wasn’t surprised to learn that he formed a collective with kandinsky (another one of my fav artists!) and he also admired matisse’s works, both renowned colourists. kandinsky wrote a famous article on the spiritual value of colours too.
a lil more abt franz marc the original painter of yellow cow -
this is copied from the guggenheim museum’s website. interesting chap, crazy abt animals. but boy, can be paint!
b. 1880, Munich; d. 1916, Verdun Franz Marc was born February 8, 1880, in Munich. The son of a landscape painter, he decided to become an artist after a year of military service interrupted his plans to study philology. From 1900 to 1902, he studied at the Kunstakademie in Munich with Gabriel Hackl and Wilhelm von Diez. The following year during a visit to France, he was introduced to Japanese woodcuts and the work of the Impressionists in Paris.
Marc suffered from severe depressions from 1904 to 1907. In 1907, he went again to Paris, where he responded enthusiastically to the work of Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, the Cubists, and the Expressionists; later, he was impressed by the Henri Matisse exhibition in Munich in 1910. During this period, he received steady income from the animal-anatomy lessons he gave to artists.
In 1910, Marc’s first solo show was held at Kunsthandlung Brackl, Munich, and he met August Macke and the collector Bernhard Koehler. He publicly defended the Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKVM) and was formally
welcomed into the group early in 1911, when he met Vasily Kandinsky. After internal dissension split the NKVM, he and Kandinsky formed Der Blaue Reiter, whose first exhibition took place in December 1911 at Heinrich
Thannhauser’s Moderne Galerie, Munich. Marc invited members of the Berlin Brücke group to participate in the second Blaue Reiter show two months later at the Galerie Hans Goltz, Munich. Der Blaue Reiter Almanac was published
with lead articles by Marc in May 1912. When World War I broke out in August 1914, Marc immediately enlisted. He was deeply troubled by Macke’s death in action shortly thereafter; during the war, he produced his Sketchbook
from the Field. Marc died March 4, 1916, near Verdun-sur-Meuse, France.
