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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/430/437-29.jpg
Title	Fate of the Beasts.
Alternative Title	Fate of the Animals.
Creator	Marc, Franz (German painter and printmaker, 1880-1916)
Date	1913
Cultural Context	German European Western European
Style/Period	Modern (styles and periods) Expressionist Abstract (fine arts style)
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Oil paintings (visual works) Animal paintings Abstraction Angles (geometric concepts) Form (composition concepts) Shape (form attribute) Disasters Trees Plants (vegetation) Vegetation Figurative art Figures (representations) Profiles (figures) Three-quarter views Oblique views Wild animals Wildlife Animals Horses Ponies (animals) Deer Foxes (animals)
Subject	Paintings Oil paintings Abstract works Abstract paintings Disasters Fatalism Trees Plants Animals Horses Ponies Boars Foxes Deer
Description	"Fate of the Beasts (1913), perhaps also related to the prevailing apprehensions of war, portrays a total, inescapable catastrophe. Hard, arrowlike diagonals intersect to shoot across the canvas. Trees bleed and descend in a cosmic cataclysm. The pony running from the whinnying mother plunges toward the falling tree. Foxes, noses pointing the wind, stand curiously together at the root of a gigantic tree. On the lower left two boars seem to root in the earth to hide. Above are green horses, one of them running into the red danger; in the center a blue deer sacrificially lifts its neck to the crushing trunk and carries the meaning of the painting. Marc originally called this painting And All Being Became Flaming Suffering, but Paul Klee suggested the now accepted title. The interrelationship of forms is carried to its greatest effectiveness: angular abstract shapes become animals, and animals turn into abstractions." (Excerpt, pp. 266-67)
Material	Oil on canvas Oil paint (pigmented coating) Paint Canvas
Technique	Oil painting (technique) Painting (image-making)
Work Type	Oil paintings Paintings Abstract paintings Abstract works
Repository	Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Kunstmuseum (Basle, Switzerland) Öffentliche Kunstsammlung (Basle, Switzerland)
Source	Selz, Peter. German Expressionist Painting. Berkeley; Los Angeles: U. of California P., 1957. (pl.168).
Rights	Photograph reproduced in Selz courtesy: © 1957 By the Regents of the University of California.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 437-29.jpg
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