Rokeby Forever wrote:If you;'re really into art, Mr Mellon (one of the biggest personal art collectors ever) once taught me something about horse paintings that's really interesting.
If you look at 18th century paintings of foxhunts or horses running, you'll see that artists painted horses running with their front legs extended and their back legs extended outward at the same time - that's not how a horse strides, and artists were totally embarrassed when it was later pointed out that the mechanics of a horse are different from what they had painted. It wasn't until later that artists got it right.
not really into art, I am into mythology and ancient rome which is about half of art history. My best friend and I had a class and we said look.. we are going to take 1 painting.. and just decet the shit out of it. that painting was the conversion of saint paul..which depetcts saint paul riding a horse being struck down b y a light from god and being converted, hence the name. This picture was painted in the highlight of the romanesque era, some of the tale tale signs of romanesque paintings are the almost violent and strong curvature which are meant to spark emotion and the vibrent use of colors. If you look closely at the painting you ill notice that the ray of light which extends from the upper right (the angel) downwards to the lower left which hits right on paul (the saint) himself, which smybolises his connection to god. This also symbolises in a sense the christan holy trinity (the father being god, the son, with Saint Paul being one of the tweleve deciples and the holy ghost, being the angel)
I never could figure out who the guy in the black was, but I assume he's some type of develish archtype figure, as him seeing fighting off the "light of god"
man I can write a damn 6 page essay on that painting.. hell i have written a 6 page esssay on that.. got a B in the class not bad for a 10th grader in an AP history class.
back to irish smoke... very pretty filly. that jockey from what I see isnt' half bad herself.. then again I dont' know too many women who do look bad in that position. lol, let me stop.
imnumberjuan, if you want to see big red you have to actually go though the links on the page and see "all time great horses". he's there
you know a horse race is bad when you end up talking about art history and grey horses.