The Blue Horses
In Franz Marc painting “The Blue Horses” he uses a few of the primary colors. In the artists painting, I feel that he used a little chiaroscuro and contoured lines to show volume. Franz used contoured lines throughout the horse’s bodies, as well as in the tall grass painting around the horses. He demonstrates volume also with the subtle color changes, using the darker and lighter hues of blue in the creases if the horse’s bodies. The artist used a closed palette of abstract colors in this 1911 piece. He used blue, red and yellow to create the sky out of in this painting, and those colors complement each other well. The artist also show us a subtle change in color, within the blue and red scale throughout sky. The blue next to the yellow gives