Horse Art Category

Black Horse Art

Ayusi Scattering Rebels with Upraise Spear - Lang Shining
Recently I’ve been featuring horse art in a different way entirely, by color. It’s an interesting journey and allows me to share art from a wide variety of artists & styles. So far I’ve featured the art of white & red horses and today it’s the mighty blacks.
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The Horses of Wiktor Michajlowitsch Wassnezow

It was a fortunate coincidence that led me to the work of Wiktor Wassnezow, but I’m so glad it happened. His work has a romantic feel that is typical of Russian & other northern artists, but the attention to detail & extreme personality in his subjects that captures my imagination.

A Little Background

Wiktor was born in a remote village in Russia in the mid 19th century and his specialty was mythological and historical characters. He was also an important part of the Russian revivalist movement. Unfortunately his fairy tale art wasn’t well received at the time and his art wasn’t publicly celebrated until he turned to more religious themes.
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The Horses of Nicholas Roerich

Nicholas Roerich was born in the late 19th century in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was known for more than his art, and was also a philosopher, a scientist a writer and an insatiable traveler.

It’s A Long Tale

It’s almost impossible to put tell his story in a nutshell, but here are some highlights. An avid traveler Nicholas was able to incorporate different cultural imagery and ideas into his work. This lends a uniqueness to his body of work (which includes something like 7,000 paintings alone). He was also instrumental in building the first Buddhist Temple in Russia as he felt a connection with the beliefs of the east.
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White Horses in Art

As our appreciation for horse art grows, we tend to look for more specific artists and subjects. That said, we thought we’d explore the world of horse art through color. There are a few of them that seem to be quite popular colors for artists.

White Horse

Today we’re focused on white horses in art so we searched high and low to find some unique and interesting representations. The white horse has been given to many different connotations, from drugs to the devil (perhaps because they were often used as war mounts).
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4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Perhaps no horsemen have been painted more than these harbingers of doom (except maybe Don Quixote). They are only mentioned in one book of the Bible (Revelations) and they are not a welcome sight.

A Little About The Boys

This is a doomsday post worthy of Halloween, and all of the works here provide a rather unique & spooky view. Each rider & their mount serves a purpose and possess their own clear identity, along with totems which are generally depicted in the art. (the first painting is a great example of this).
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Chinese Horse Art

Chinese Horse ArtI read somewhere that there are more horses in China than in any other country. Which makes sense when you consider how many people live there, and the fact that many of the Chinese breeds are very old indeed.

Specific Horse Type

I’ve always appreciated Chinese art and it’s lasting power is undeniable, each piece below manages to convey a great deal of the animal’s personality. It’s interesting to see the stout pony-like build of their horses, which is overly caricatured in some while others are an accurate representation of the animals found in China at the time.
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