Horse in a landscape 1910

Franz Marc made this painting, Horse in a Landscape, sometime in the early 20th century. It's full of these bold, bright colors and simple forms, giving it a really dreamlike, almost childlike feel. I can just imagine Marc, standing in front of his canvas, slathering on these thick layers of paint, probably with big, gestural strokes. Look how the horse is made up of these smooth planes of red, and that bright blue mane. And then the landscape behind it, all yellows and greens – it's like a world seen through a kaleidoscope. I wonder if he was thinking about Fauvism? I bet he was thinking about expressing some kind of deeper, spiritual connection with nature. You see, there is something so direct and unfiltered about the way he's put it all down on the canvas. It makes me wonder if he was trying to find a new way of seeing. It makes me feel like painting myself.