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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 ...
Lascaux, Horse, c. Stone Age cave painting George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, c. 1762, National Gallery, London. Horses have appeared in works of art throughout history, frequently as depictions of the horse in battle. The horse appears less frequently in modern art, partly because the horse is no longer significant either as a mode of ...
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 position of the horses' legs in the painting – with both front and hind legs extended outwards while airborne – is never actually exhibited by a galloping horse. This was conclusively demonstrated by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, with high-speed photography showing that galloping horses are airborne when their legs are beneath the body ...
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.
As a consequence, a spinning horse and some houses in the background look to the observer as single dynamic unity. Umberto Boccioni sculpted Dynamism of a speeding Horse + Houses after publishing his manifesto on futurist sculpture technical rules. In this document the artist encourages the use of several and different materials, the idea of an ...
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. —
The painting caused a sensation when it was exhibited, along with View on the Stour near Dedham and Yarmouth Jetty, [7] at the Salon of 1824 in Paris (it has been suggested that the inclusion of Constable's paintings in the exhibition was a tribute to Géricault, who died early that year).