Blue Rider, (The Blue Rider)
Group of German and expressionist painters, of which the major are Kandinsky, Marc and Mackay. The name was invented by Kandinsky, who had a real passion for the blue and Marcus, who was particularly touched by the horses as a theme. At the two basic exhibitions of the group, that were carried out in Munich in 1912 and 1913, were involved except of the basic executives and non-German artists like Delonai, Braque, De la Frenay, Klee, Picasso, Vlamenk, Malevich, the brothers Bourliouk and the composer Arnold Sainberk. The Blue Rider Almanac that was published in 1912, included a highly interesting writings of Kandinsky and Marc. The project of the group, which was dissolved by the outbreak of war in 1914, was projecting a mental in the arrest but intuitive in implementation of primitivism, place new emphasis on children's painting as inspiration, and emphasized the abstract forms and the psychological and symbolic aspects of the line and color.