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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When Wassily Kandinsky was asked how he and the German painter Franz Marc first came up with the name for their Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), Kandinsky had an amusingly simple explanation: "We both loved blue," he said, "Marc horses and I riders. So the name seemed obvious." The new exhibit at the Busch-Reisinger, Franz Marc: Horses, has perhaps taken its cue from Kandinsky's anecdote. Spotlighting in particular Marc's "Grazing Horses IV (The Red Horses)," the exhibit celebrates a single, simple theme: Marc's love of and fascination with horses. But the effect...

Author: By Annalise Nelson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ALL THE PRETTY HORSES: FRANZ MARC AT THE BUSCH-REISINGER | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...Looking at these four paintings, you'd hardly guess that World War I was less than two years in the future. This was, in a way, part of Der Blaue Reiter's aim. Unlike the earlier Die Brcke movement, the second wave of prewar Expressionism-Marc, Kandinsky and their collaborators-did not paint the social upheavals of their time. Instead, they attempted to transcend social discord by creating images of other, hypothetical worlds. For Kandinsky, this meant a focus on apocalyptic imagery. And for Marc, of course, there was the natural world...

Author: By Annalise Nelson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ALL THE PRETTY HORSES: FRANZ MARC AT THE BUSCH-REISINGER | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...Keramet A. Reiter...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shop Until You Drop | 9/21/2000 | See Source »

Staff writer Keramet A. Reiter contributed to the reporting of this story...

Author: By Winnie Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ellison to Publish Memoir | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

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