Essays on Stallion

Chuck Close’s “Frank”: Everyman as Art

The late author Douglas Adams said that art is holding a mirror up to the Universe – although he then pointed out that there was not a mirror big enough, since the Universe was infinite in size. So what’s an artist to do? American artist Chuck Close brings that mirror down to size by making his subject huge. In “Frank” (1969), a grey-toned acrylic painting of a black-and-white photograph, an everyday man becomes a monumental work of art. Close shows that the everyman is just as valid a subject for art than classical themes or the upper class. It has only been very recently ...

The Hapsburg monarch developed required stallions that may portray their royalty and enabled their dominance during war. They developed the Lipizzaner stallions. The stallions were custom made for the monarch as they were used for war and peace. In addition, the prestige of the stallions was significant. This acknowledgement made the breed across the globe. To date, the stallions are celebrated as the oldest breed of horses across the Europe. The stallions have been bred for 400 years (Green, 2009). Regardless of the time frame, the horses are applauded across Europe for the most outstanding breeds of horses. However, ...

IF WISHES WERE HORSES: THE WORK OF ROBERT VAVRA

If Wishes Were Horses: The Work of Robert Vavra If Wishes Were Horses: The Work of Robert Vavra One of the most successful commercial photographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is Robert Vavra. Although he is best known for his horse photography, his portfolio includes many subjects like wild animals, flowers and landscapes. The work that sells the best are his horse images, so naturally Vavra has concentrated on the horse since the success of his 1977 book Equus: The Creation of a Horse. In a 2011 interview with the Lexington Herald-Leader, Vavra said that he thinks ...