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Veryl Goodnight: The Day the Wall Came Down, 1998 copy in Clayallee, Berlin-Zehlendorf near Allied Museum. Veryl Goodnight (born January 26, 1947) is a sculptor and painter who since 2006 has been living in Mancos, Colorado. [1] She is known for her equine sculpture - in particular a realistic depiction of horses, often in an American West ...
As a student, Degas had filled his notebooks with drawings of horses. During a tour of breeding farms with Paul Valpincon and after exposure to horse races, Degas appreciated the movement of the horses and the colors of the jockeys uniforms. He wanted to make his paintings seem spontaneous as if he'd captured a passing moment. [2]
The horse appears less frequently in modern art, partly because the horse is no longer significant either as a mode of transportation or as an implement of war. Most modern representations are of famous contemporary horses, artwork associated with horse racing, or artwork associated with the historic cowboy or Native American tradition of the ...
Xu Beihong (Chinese: 徐悲鴻; Wade–Giles: Hsü Pei-hung; 19 July 1895 – 26 September 1953), also known as Ju Péon, was a Chinese painter. [1]He was primarily known for his Chinese ink paintings of horses and birds and was one of the first Chinese artists to articulate the need for artistic expressions that reflected a modern China at the beginning of the 20th century.
Battle of Orsha (painting) The Battle of San Romano; The Battle of Taillebourg, 21 July 1242; The Battle of the Amazons (Rubens) Before the Race; The Bewitched Man; Big Rocking Horse; The Black Brunswicker; Black Horses (Grandma Moses) Blackie (American horse) Blessed Be the Host of the King of Heaven; The Blind Girl; Blue Horse I; Blue Horses ...
George Stubbs ARA (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Reynolds and Gainsborough.
Horse and Train was inspired by both J. M. W. Turner's 1844 painting Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway, [1] as well as a couplet excerpt from South African poet Roy Campbell's 1949 poem: Against a regiment I oppose a brain And a dark horse against an armoured train. —
Favela Painting is a series of community artworks in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil painted by Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn (known as Haas&Hahn) [1] [2] with the help of local people. [3] Firmeza Foundation, an organization based in Netherlands runs the project. [ 4 ]