I don't have time for tumblr discourse they're calling the very hungry caterpillar degenerate art over on twitter
good art is when something looks like real life, the more real it looks the more better the art. abstracted figures give my trad children nightmares, one time they were exposed to cubism and couldn't go outside for a week
Huh fascinating, I wonder what the fash have against Eric Carle? I wonder what he might have said about his life, and influences, and early experiences that makes them say he’s part of an ‘insalubrious culture’?
Franz Marc (1880-1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement.
« When I was about 12 or 13 years old, my art teacher, Herr Krauss, introduced me to abstract and Expressionist art during a time when works such as these had been banned and forbidden to be painted or exhibited in Nazi Germany.
The paintings which my teacher secretly showed me, were unlike anything I had been exposed to before. This experience at first shocked me, but in the end, changed my view of art, though I didn't know it at the time. Herr Krauss was a courageous teacher to defy the dictatorial rules of the time. »
