Nude with Cat 1910

Franz Marc made “Nude with Cat” with oil on canvas, and it is a total trip. I mean, the colours! The dominant reds, oranges, yellows, blues. It's a whole mood. Imagine him, lost in the act of painting, trying to capture something essential. He’s making it up as he goes along, right? Those strokes, so bold, like he's wrestling with the paint to get it just right. Thick impasto marks give the composition a striking textural quality. The way he renders the figure, not quite realistic but full of feeling. You can almost feel the heat radiating off the canvas. Maybe he was thinking about the relationship between humans and animals, or maybe he just liked the way the cat lapped up the milk. Who knows? It’s like he’s saying that painting is a way to explore the world, to see it differently, and to share that vision with us. Like other painters, he keeps the conversation going, each artist adding their own voice to the chorus.