artwork: franz marc
The
Little Blue Horses
by
Pat Tompkins
Bold swoops of color, the canvas filled
by three muscular blue animals,
round haunches foreshortened
black manes trace their curved necks.
Grazing a bright yellow and green
field,
heads tucked, shy, they do not gaze at the
viewer.
Pure potential energy of the new century
before the war. The artist died at Verdun
A quarter century later: Munich
an exhibit of “degenerate art” hosted by
Hitler.
“Die Kleinen blauen Pferde” shown
with works by other artists. Verboten.
Picture Nazis angry about a painting
of blue horses by Franz Marc.
Goebbels and his ilk upset by horses
the wrong color. Imagine the danger.
~ originally published in Everyday Weirdness
