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When Wassily Kandinsky was asked how he and the German painter Franz Marc first came up with the name for their Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), Kandinsky had an amusingly simple explanation: "We both loved blue," he said, "Marc horses and I riders. So the name seemed obvious." The new exhibit at the Busch-Reisinger, Franz Marc: Horses, has perhaps taken its cue from Kandinsky's anecdote. Spotlighting in particular Marc's "Grazing Horses IV (The Red Horses)," the exhibit celebrates a single, simple theme: Marc's love of and fascination with horses. But the effect...
...flipping through any old history of modern art, chances are you've seen it on the side of a coffee mug or on your suburbanite neighbor's living room wall. With its three wonderfully spirited red horses cavorting in their Technicolor landscape, it isn't difficult to see why Marc's painting has been so wildly admired and widely reproduced. In fact, the only time since its initial unveiling in 1911 that the painting hasn't been enthusiastically received was in 1939, when it was sold with several other works by Marc at the Nazis' infamous "degenerate art" auction...
According to Marc P. Diaz '99, a business analyst in McKinsey's New York office, the dinner is an important part of "actively reaching out to candidates who represent diverse backgrounds...
...games against top teams this year, this was our best chance to pull an upset," sophomore midfielder Marc Buan said. "We definitely stayed with them throughout the whole game. The way the game went was not indicative of the score...
...third down with five yards to go Splithoff dropped back to pass but junior defensive end Marc Laborsky beat senior offensive tackle John Raveche and sacked Splithoff, who was also called for intentional grounding on the play...