Difficult Art at the Walker

http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/91020/die-grossen-blauen-pferde-the-large-blue-horses


Sometimes art makes me mad. It can seem like the artsist didnt care about thier own work or like the artist was jacked up on all sorts of drugs. Thats how I feel about Franz Marc, Die grossen blauen Pferde (The Large Blue Horses), 1911. I dont really see the beauty of this piece. It was confusing and seemed plain stupid. so I did a little research and found out that Franz Marc was in a group of artists called the blaue reiter (blue rider) and thier goal was to paint the thoughts of the inner mind instead of the real world. Marc used the curved lines and blue color of the horses to symbolize a closeness to nature. Maybe its just because this was painted in 1911 and i wasnt born until 1991, but i just dont care for it at all.