I was always fascinated by the power of the horse, it's grace in movement, connection to man throughout the human history, and artistic interpretation of that connection in art. Here is my ceramic sculpture, a 3-D illustration of a another symbolic connection between the man and a horse, heroes of the famous epic work...do you need more clues to guess the name of the rider and his horse?
Below is an acrylic on canvas, it is a large piece which I painted last summer immersing myself in the culture of prehistoric times. I tried to use the same pigments as the cave artists as well as my hands and fingers to paint it.
Interesting is to think on the relations between a man and a horse, in the dawn of human story horse was a wild animal hunted for food and then eventually it became domesticated, helping the man in his labors, enabling him to discover and conquer.
Ecce Equus!
It's Don Quixote himself!!
ReplyDeleteWe went to a wonderful museum in Guanajuato that focuses on images of Don Quixote from all over the world.
http://www.museumdonquixote.com/
And there we learned that the Don is probably the best known literary character in the world.
i like your very human (and very equine?) and very tired version of man and horse.
Chris
Yes! Don Quixote himself, now what about the horse, anybody remembers how Don Quixote named his horse?
ReplyDeleteThank you Chris, for the comment and info on the museum, I will definitely check it out. I remember series of paintings of Don Quixote by Honore Daumier at the Louvre.
The name of the horse was Rociante.
ReplyDeletePavel, this is a great piece. You probably created it when you became tired of all your journeys lately.
LOL
Take care,
Shoshana
Love this blog post, the art, and the reflection. There is an interesting relationship between man and animal, but particularly man and horse as well as man and dog. T.S. Eliot speaks of dogs' loyalty to man in "The Wasteland", for example. There are so many stories of the intelligence of horses such as in "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift. Perhaps in this case, your journey has led you to the land of Houyhnhnms where horses reign and humans are mere Yahoos. :)
ReplyDeleteIn any case, I am amazed by horses and by your art. I hope we can all inspire students to follow their passion the way you do. ~ Mariane