Tuesday is artist appreciation day & today it’s all about the work of Iwona Jenkowski. Although I didn’t find her on Twitter, she and I connected through the website.
Today’s artist paints bold, colorful horses and in between vibrant splashes of color she creates animals that are both detailed & lifelike. Not a horse owner (as of last time we talked) but she is an equal opportunity horse lover and appreciates them all.
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Tuesday is artist appreciation day & today it’s all about the work of Karen McLain, another artist I found via Twitter.
Todays artist paints animals that not only evoke a sense of personality but a sense of movement as well. It’s almost as if she is providing quick snapshots into their lives. Karen loves all horses equally, but happens to have a soft spot for Quarter Horses.
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We are celebrating our horse artists on a weekly basis & today it’s all about the work of Jennifer Pratt, another artist I found via Twitter.
Today’s artist paints & draws exceptionally detailed portraits, infused with personality and almost real enough to walk off the page. She’s a big warmblood fan with a personal interest in bloodlines and Canadian Sport Horses.
Be sure to visit her website at www.jennpratt.com or subscribe to her blog at jennprattequineartist.wordpress.com to see her latest stuff & you can always find Jennifer on Twitter or Facebook to keep up with her work. Here are some quick quotes & my favorite images from her interview, you can read the whole interview here.
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The first artist interview ever published on The Equinest was Emily of Texas and I found her via Twitter. Since then the list has grown along with my appreciation for art.
Today’s artist paints colorful & vibrant pieces, full of character & warmth. Interestingly enough she’s not just into horses, her mount of choice is Mammoth Jackstock.
Be sure to visit her blog at emilyoftexas.wordpress.com to see her latest stuff & you can always follow Emily on twitter to keep up with her work. Here are some quick quotes & my favorite images from her interview, you can read the whole interview here.
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Seems as thought I’m on a military horse art kick, and I think the Juliusz Kossak may be my favorite so far. A Polish painter from a long line of artists, he became well known for his historical paintings & illustrations.
His personal experience growing up in Poland during the military partitions made a mark on his art although he was often commissioned for portraits as well. The battlefield was Juliusz’s specialty, he immortalized battle scenes, and did many portraits of military personnel with their mounts.
The movement & presence he captures in his work is magnificent and his attention to detail really brings his subjects to life.
Depicting horses with an animated, illustrative flair, Carle Vernet was a horse lover from a young age. His intimate experience with the animal is evident in his work, as is his passion for the subject.
Carl lived and worked during the French Revolution, and was personally touched when his sister saw the guillotine. After this tragedy his style changed dramatically and he created the drawings below.
These drawings of Napoleon’s Grand Armee uniforms won Carle a great deal of acclaim. His attention to detail is magnificent and each portrait is infused with the personality of its subjects.
Perhaps all unicorn lovers have seen these Lady and the Unicorn tapestries (they’ve been around a while). However, many may not realize that it is a series of pieces, each one depicting a different sense.
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Asmus Jacob Carstens seems to be a bit of a mystery (online anyway) I had trouble finding any information about the artist himself. (& I’m not entirely sure this is the artists name – thanks to a commenter for providing a bit of info about him).
Although he isn’t well documented in English online, his art is worth a look. He was a Danish portrait artist in Germany who clearly had a thing for men in uniform.
The images below come from the Gmundener Prachtwerk published in 1761 which is a collection of historical uniforms of the Hanover army during the Seven Years War.
Otto Eerelman was a painter, lithographer & engraver who was probably best known for his paintings of horses and dogs.
The images below come from an album of art entitled Horse Breeds which was published in 1898, (there were 40 in total).
Otto possessed a detailed knowledge of horseflesh and the ability to transfer that to canvas.
This paired with the author’s knowledge on the subject made this one of the leading horse books of its day. It became quite valuable and highly sought after.
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The Thoroughbred horse has held the fascination of artists since the breeds beginnings in the 17th & 18th century.
This high energy breed and racing itself began in England, but the trend of horse racing took hold worldwide and many different countries imported English animals to create their own Thoroughbred bloodlines.
Recently I’ve been doing some research through public domain art and was delighted to see so many artistic representations of this spirited breed.
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Born in Munich, Franz Marc went on to be known as one of the principal artists of the German Expressionist movement. He studied in Munich and in Paris where he discovered the work of Vincent van Gogh.
Much of Marc’s work was done in woodcut and lithography and he was fond of using vibrant color to portray his animals while placing them in more muted natural settings.
Color had a great deal of meaning to Franz, so each color he used was infused with emotion and meaning. Blue for masculinity & spirituality, yellow for femininity & joy and red for the sound of violence.
Anton was a Dutch realist painter who was perhaps best known for being an influence on the early work of Vincent van Gogh (his wife’s cousin). This is an artist who didn’t carry the support of his family into his artistic endeavors, which seemed to drive his work.
The majority of his pieces were painted to depict life in the countryside of Holland, he loved the landscape and delighted in capturing the soft colors he found there.
The pieces below have horses in them by default, animals that drove and carried the daily life in the country. However his soft brush strokes and loving vision bring the subjects of his art to life in a rather magical way.