Forms at Play – (Franz Marc) Previous Next


Artist:

Museum: Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

Forms at Play documents Franc Marc’s occupation with the works of his friend Robert Delaunay, especially those from the series Les Fenêtres sur la Ville. With this painting, produced in the spring of 1914 in his house in Ried, Marc found his own path to abstraction and formulated his variation of ‘pure’ painting. Via proportion and rhythm of colors, the artist organized a course which leads from crystalline structures on the left hand edge of the picture through eruptive explosions of color and constructive forms to calm, seemingly organic figurations. Unlike Delaunay’s open structures in Les Fenêtres sur la Ville, Marc’s image has a center defined by strong red tones. His abstraction suggests natural processes, the growth of crystals and plants, unlike Delaunay’s references to a modern metropolis. Still, in his way of thinking, Marc had stuck to a naturalistic interpretation of art. As he wrote in May, 1915;

This artwork is in the public domain.

Artist

Download

Click here to download

Permissions

Free for non commercial use. See below.

Public domain

This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. However - you may not use this image for commercial purposes and you may not alter the image or remove the watermark.

This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.


Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Côte d'Ivoire has a general copyright term of 99 years and Honduras has 75 years, but they do implement that rule of the shorter term.