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August 01, 2008

Franz Marc on heightening one’s feeling for nature

  Franz Marc was a German painter who explained himself this way:

I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air. . . . (Quoted from The Life of the Creative Spirit, by H. C. Romesburg, p. 248.)

    To make his remark come alive by seeing some of his paintings, click here. And for a brief biography of Franz Marc, click here.

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