Horse Seen from Behind

Primary Creator
Draftsman: Boscoli, Andrea
Contributor(s)
Properties
Era1500s
Height9
StyleBaroque
Width6
Name of Work Horse Seen from Behind
Production Date 1587c
Production Location


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Media Types black chalk, paper, red chalk
General Notes

Description

Drawing of an active, strong horse, from the rear, with tail swishing and front right leg raised.  Strong, accurate, realistic rendering.

Theme

Emotional Sum or Sense-of-life

Not much except perhaps stylistic -- confident, strong drafting style, and a vibrant, alive, horse.

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Discussion

This drawing is instructive in relation to another drawing on ArtGrok "Head of a Bearded Man". While both of these drawings are similar in quality of wonderful draftsmanship, the Horse drawing is Experiential because it has no theme. Whereas the Head of a Bearded Man, by virtue of being a drawing of a face, and given its strong emotional character, falls into the Thematic Art category. This points out that the choice of a painter (draftsman) to do a portrait or face can result in a thematic work by virture of that subject choice, whereas even though the horse can be considered as good, it lacks the emotional sense afforded by a face. The rear end of a horse just doesn't have the expressive potential of a man's elderly face.

Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/16/2024 - 09:17