Favorite Paintings?

[Thomas II]

Plus the proportions are all wrong.
Horses run like this

Depends on the gaiting of the horse.

Paintings are not to be taken as literal, factual depictions but as artistic representation. Also, cameras can catch and isolate movement as a series of stills while the human eye and brain do not and cannot. It is wrong to fault the artist for painting what his eyes and brain saw, particularly when one considers the impossibility of convincing any horse to hold a pose mid-gallop.

The point is that the painting in question is supposed to be a fairly realistic representation, and the position of legs is just not possible in a galloping horse

 

[Toni]

Plus the proportions are all wrong.
Horses run like this

Depends on the gaiting of the horse.

Paintings are not to be taken as literal, factual depictions but as artistic representation. Also, cameras can catch and isolate movement as a series of stills while the human eye and brain do not and cannot. It is wrong to fault the artist for painting what his eyes and brain saw, particularly when one considers the impossibility of convincing any horse to hold a pose mid-gallop.

The point is that the painting in question is supposed to be a fairly realistic representation, and the position of legs is just not possible in a galloping horse

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I know that’s not how horses legs move when they are galloping.

It is an idealized depiction of a horse, not an anotomical rendering. The same constraints remain of not having at the artist’s disposal a series of cameras triggered by the horse passing, a motion recording with stop time functions nor the internet full of experts to tell him he’s doing it wrong.

 

[Thomas II]

I think this explains it quite well...

https://ejmuybridge.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/lankester-the-problem-of-the-galloping-horse/

 

[Thomas II]

Frank Weston Benson

"Summer", 1909

 

[Thomas II]

"At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance", by Henri Toulouse Lautrec

 

[Thomas II]

"Waterlilies", by Claude Monet

 

[Thomas II]

"At the Moulin Rouge", by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

 

[Thomas II]

"Poppy Field in Argenteuil", by Claude Monet

 

[blastula]

Ecce Homo by Martínez and Giménez

 

[WAB]

Guiseppe Arcimbaldo (1526 or 1527 – July 11, 1593), Housewife:

 

[WAB]

Guiseppe Arcimbaldo, Four Seasons in One Head



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo

 

[DBT]

Celebrating Bacchanalia.

 

[Thomas II]

"Great Wave off Kanagawa", by Katsushika Hokusai

 

[Thomas II]

Altamira caves "Bison"

 

[Thomas II]

"Girl with a Pearl Earring" , by Johannes Vermeer

 

[WAB]

Speaking of beautiful faces, here's one of my favorites, Beatrice Cenci, "variously attributed to Reni or Sarani", according to Wikipedia.

Beatrice was executed for killing her father, who had systematically and brutally raped her.

 

[4321lynx]

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Altamira caves "Bison"

Here the artist knew what he was doing and showed all four hooves of the bison off the ground at the correct moment in the gallop.

The other also seems to have the horse's ears pricked up which never happens at a gallop.

 

[Thomas II]

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Altamira caves "Bison"

Here the artist knew what he was doing and showed all four hooves of the bison off the ground at the correct moment in the gallop.

The other also seems to have the horse's ears pricked up which never happens at a gallop.

Good one!

 

[Thomas II]

"Helga" (series) , by Andrew Wyeth

 

[Thomas II]

"The Temptation of St. Anthony", by Salvador Dali