By: Terry Tottenham

Terry Tottenham — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 18:53:44 +0000

In reply to Margaret.

Have you ever seen a flying horse?— this is an allegorical painting, all rules of horsemanship do not apply here…which means the artist can take any fanciful liberties they wish to ….so whether or not the horse is on the bit or the rider has perfect riding form should not be a concern in this creative artistry type of painting…..

By: Margaret

Margaret — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:33:35 +0000

Equine art.
Not that much “passion”; I find his art to be very conventional, almost stodgy; but he is a good draughtsman. All his subjects are well-drawn; but they’re not passionate. He definitely has anatomy down.
Who sits like that on a horse that’s flying through the sky, and what horse is “on the bit” while flying?

I prefer John Charles Dollman’s painting of the Valkyries; much more exciting, and although it’s an imaginary subject, it’s done with more realism as it would be under those circumstances.

The Englishman George Stubbs’ paintings of horses – amazing, and even more so when you realize that (since he grew up in those surroundings) he shut himself up for a time with slaughtered horses, which he dissected, preserved with tallow – and produced incredible copper engravings of each layer of a horse’s anatomy, right down to the skeleton. 1700s.
He probably had an influence on and provided data for Arbo on equine anatomy. http://www.essentialart.com/acatalog/George_Stubbs_Whistlejacket.html

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