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The Blue Rider

The Blue Rider was a group of artists who liked to paint and draw things in a way that was different from what people were used to seeing. They thought that the way things looked in real life was boring and they wanted to make art that was more interesting and expressive.

The Blue Rider group started in Germany in the early 1900s when a group of friends who were artists started meeting and sharing their ideas. They liked to paint things like horses, flowers, and landscapes, but they made them look really different than how they looked in real life. They used bright colors and strange shapes, almost like they were painting from their imaginations instead of what they saw in front of them.

The artists in the Blue Rider group wanted their paintings to make people feel emotions and see the world in a different way. They were also interested in spirituality and the idea that art could express things that couldn't be expressed with words.

The most famous artists in the Blue Rider group were Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Kandinsky liked to paint abstract, colorful paintings that didn't look like anything in the real world. Marc liked to paint animals, especially horses and cows, in bright colors with unusual shapes.

The Blue Rider group only existed for a few years before the artists went their own ways, but their ideas had a big impact on the world of art. Today, people still look at their paintings and try to understand what the artists were thinking when they made them.