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Black and White has been credited with helping to change the perceptions of what a picture book could be. [5] [12] This book was quickly seen as an important way of connecting with kids during a digital age. [10] [12] Black and White has been labeled a transition text from traditional to digital picture books. [23]
Horse Attacked by a Lion (1768-69), oil on panel, 25.7 x 29.5 cm., Yale Center for British Art. Stubbs began an informal series of works on the subject of a lion attacking a horse around 1762 or 1763, and he continued to explore and reinterpret the theme in at least 17 images over a period of about 30 years.
Anderson had an interest in horses and drawing. When he wasn't out riding horses, he was drawing them, taking great interest in their bone structure and conformation. Anderson started his career by illustrating for other authors, but eventually began developing texts to accompany his realistic and lively black and white drawings.
The Mari Lwyd was utilised by the artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins in a series of drawings from around 2000 that focused on a metamorphosing horse/man as a nightmarish harbinger of his father's death. [74] Catriona Urquhart wrote a sequence of poems titled The Mare's Tale which were published alongside Hicks-Jenkins' images in 2001. [ 75 ]
The Horse in Motion is a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, including six cards that each show a series of six to twelve "automatic electro-photographs" depicting succesive phases in the movement of a horse, shot in June 1878. An additional card reprinted the single image of the horse "Occident" trotting at high speed, which had ...
Bronze Statuette of a Horse, late 2nd – 1st century B.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art Assyrian horses, Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal reliefs from Nineveh, 7th century BCE The horse appeared in prehistoric cave paintings such as those in Lascaux, [1] estimated to be about 17,000 years old.
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, [1] well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. His best-known work is the lion sculptures at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.
"The Singing, Springing Lark", "The Singing, Soaring Lark", "The Lady and the Lion" or "Lily and the Lion" (German: Das singende springende Löweneckerchen) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, appearing as tale no. 88. [1] It is Aarne–Thompson type 425C. [2] Others of this type include Beauty and the Beast and The Small ...