Don't giggle when I say Poetess Ono-No

[purpleponyart]

I was really surprised by how much of my second class was made up of Japanese art. One thing that people forget is that art doesn't occur in a vacuum. When the first Japanese prints were exhibited at the Crystal Palace in London in 1851, it ushered in the era of modernity and Western artists began to borrow Eastern elements depicting time and space. Similarly, Japanese artists gave perspective a shot as well as shadows and value. It was such a fascinating class - the differences are obvious, but sometimes one doesn't know until someone tells you!

Just going over a bunch of journal articles on Franz Marc that I printed out. Thank goodness the ACAD library can be accessed from home :-) I really feel that he's an under-appreciated artist and unlike other artists of his time, he has few massive tomes devoted to him. I'm researching Fate of the Animals because it is the one that I can find the most references for. It's just not that he painted horses, but I'm touched by how he used colour to render them as well. There's an intense spirituality to his paintings as well, and as I'm discovering while researching, he had visions of an apocalypse. I was shocked to find out that he volunteered for service in WWI - where he was killed - literally greeting catastrophe head on.