Focus on this artwork and analyze the Variation.
The famous Marc painting from the same year, Blue Horses created after this study in oil on canvas, has the dimensions 106 × 181 cm and shows the same motif, with only the colours changed significantly. The horse's bodies are held in a strong blue, the landscape and sky have red and purple tones that do not correspond to reality. The paintings Blue Horse I and Blue Horse II were also created in 1911. In all of the horse pictures of this time, Marc turns blue from an “appearance colour” to an “essential colour”. The colour blue stood for the male principle in his own colour theory. With the animal image he found a symbol for a “spiritualization of the world”. The blue horses push like the blue flower searching out for deliverance from earthly weight and material bondage. In 1913 he created the painting The Tower of Blue Horses, again with blue horses as a motif, whose whereabouts have been unknown since 1945.
The Tower of Blue Horses Blue Horse I Blue Horses