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Horse racing became a popular pastime in 19th century France under Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III. Degas began admiring horses while visiting friends in Normandy. Over the course of his career it is reported that he created 45 oils, 20 pastels, 250 drawings, and 17 sculptures related to horses. Degas was eager to know horses in anatomical ...
A sketch may serve a number of purposes: it might record something that the artist sees, it might record or develop an idea for later use or it might be used as a quick way of graphically demonstrating an image, idea or principle. Sketching is the most inexpensive art medium. [5] Sketches can be made in any drawing medium.
The series also includes two drawings of her siblings, one of John More, [65] and one of Elizabeth Dauncey; [66] a further one depicts her grandfather John More the Elder. [67] Another drawing, and one similar to it, also from the series, depict her father; [68] [69] a related painted portrait is in the Frick Collection, New York. [70]
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 ...
Blue Horse I is an oil painting by Franz Marc completed in 1911. It is one of the painter's most famous works and is part of the collection of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich . The painting was part of several exhibitions that Franz Marc and fellow Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky presented to the public under the name Der ...
Sheet with Sketches of Peasants: March–April 1890 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Saint-Rémy F 1599v JH 1933 Sheet with Sketches of a Digger and Other Figures: March–April 1890 Morgan Library & Museum, New York Saint-Rémy F 1620v JH 1934 Sheet with Sketches of Working People: March–April 1890 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Saint-Rémy F 1605r JH ...
Bonheur painted 'The Horse Fair' from a series of sketches of Percherons, and other draft horses, which she had made at the Paris horse market on the tree-lined Boulevard de l'Hôpital, near the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, [3] which is visible in the background to the painting. She attended the market twice weekly for a year and a half from ...
Boy on a white horse, drawing by Theodor Kittelsen (1857–1914). Of the four elements, water is the one most often associated with the horse, [156] whether the animal is assimilated to an aquatic creature, linked to fairy-like beings such as Japan's kappa, or mounted by water deities. He may be born of water himself, or cause it to gush forth ...