Horse and hedgehog 1913

Franz Marc made this woodcut, using stark black lines, a visual language all of his own. Imagine him, carving away at the block, finding these shapes, feeling the resistance of the wood under his knife. It’s kind of wild, right? The horse seems to burst out of the frame, almost like an apparition, while below, everything is fractured, mirrored, like another world. I wonder what he was thinking, making something that teeters on the edge of abstraction but remains rooted in figuration? Perhaps he wanted to invite us into a space of pure feeling. What does it mean to be a horse or a hedgehog? Painters are always in conversation with each other, across time and space, inspiring each other's creative process. And, like this print, art is about embracing ambiguity and uncertainty.