Renoir, de Toulouse-Lautrec & Gaugin etc - horses

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Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec horse carriage

a short entry on this fresh Spring Day - nota bene Happy Nowruz to all.

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some of the modern masters of painting who also painted some horse images within their works.

Pierre Auguste Renoir 

a short depiction of this rather splendid realistic artwork from Ronoir

Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec 

Gaugin - I used to stare at these two paintings a lot , especially at the Riders on the Beach. 

Camille Pissarro

Pablo Picasso

Boy leading the Horse page on Wikipedia 

Egar Degas, my favorite, will be saved  for another day

and as one of my fellow travelers suggested - Giorgio de Chricio should come too
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Laura Knight pinxit - horses & circuses

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let us move away from Polish history tonight and canter closer to our times - XX century Britain.

when I was a kid, several times a year our town would receive a visit  from a wondering' circus on their country-wide, year long circuit - each visit being full of clowns, acrobats and above everything many animals, wild or beautiful or both - :) .
I used to love watching various wild and domestic animals perform tricks and drills, from Asiatic elephants, African lions, Siberian tigers and other wild cats, monkeys, seals, or just our old good dogs and birds doing various tricks, and finally a big number of each show;  teams of horses and equestrian acrobatics performed by most graceful and agile gymnasts on top of these well-trained and beautiful steeds.

In this spirit I wanted to bring to my blog the art of Laura Knight, British painter of the late XIX and most of the XX century, especially Ms Knight's equestrian art.

-Circuses, horses and acrobats & clowns -

-Gypsy and other  horse scenes from the bygone era -

 

I look fondly at these field plowing paintings - I did some of it when a teenager, I wanted to learn how to turn over and break the soil with a team of horses pulling a plough/plow, and I was lucky enough some of my grand-uncles had horses and used plows, be it with some nostalgia for the bygone times...  

Wiki Commons gallery image

and Alfred Munnings' canvas of Laura Knight painting :

all images are presented here under the Creative Commons licence,

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Stanislaw Bagienski - Polish painter at Polona etc

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Jozef Dwernicki - the November Uprising 1830-31

 

a short entry - uff, I watched with lots of gusto the final of the Quatar 2022 World Cup : what a football/soccer game between Argentina and France. Vivat Argentina, new world champion.

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Stanislaw Bagienski(1876-1948) a native-born 'Varsovian*,' was a Polish painter active between the end of the XIX century and 1948 (thus he lived through the Great War - which was terrible within the Polish lands, the wars of Restitution of Poland, and finally the tragedy of World War II and coming of the Soviets and their henchmen into Poland. Another Polish artist born in the year of Little Big Horn. 

At first Bagienski studied under his father Feliks (Felix), continuing his art studies at the Wojciech Gerson drawing atelier/school at Warsaw (then Russian Poland), then circa 1900-1901 he went to Munich and Paris to further his studies in their respective fine arts academies until 1903. Upon returning to Poland he started fully his art career, from full canvas paintings to illustrations for various periodicals of the period (leading Polish periodicals like Tygodnik Ilustrowny, Biesiada Literacka, and Swiat).

disarming of the German soldiers in Warsaw in November 1918

 

Circa 1922 he joined the 'Pro Arte' artist group or movement in Warsaw and perhaps stayed with them until it was no more, or circa 1932.

In 1927 Bagienski, then established artist, joined the faculty, as a professor, the very Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. 

 

Maestro Bagienski painted scenes from Polish history, including plenty of military-related topics, cavalrymen, famous commanders and common soldiers, from the Old Poland stories, through Napoleonic Wars through Polish uprising to more contemporaneous events of the Great War and Polish wars of Independence 1918-21, and post-1918 Polish soldiers and their horses. Also his topics included book illustrations and genre scenes..

As you can see clearly maestro Stanislaw   painted plenty of horses and this is why I decided to include him in this gallery of painters and equestrian artists on my blog.

Images of his works in sepia from Polona Polish National Library -

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Varsovian - native to Warsaw, capital of Poland.

Alfred Munnings - painter of horses and their riders

 Salvete Omnes,

dog days of the summer - but there is war, crime and mayhem, from the crime alleys of Chicago, Baltimore, Washington DC in the US, to the Russian aggression in Ukraine, or the war against Tigray in Ethiopia.  

 

Equestrian art -  joy of painting and aesthetic contentment via the brushworks of Alfred Munnings (1878-1959 ), British equestrian painting and sculpture maestro.

 

Great example of his representative  work - in this gallery,  a lithograph of The Red Prince Mare.
Sir Alfred was in favor of the representational art - here this article about his life, and dislike towards so called modern art - titled The Painter Who Hated Picasso-  Smithsonian via Web Archive. 

Christie's has some of Munnings' art for purchase and along with that auction there is their take on his art and subjects - from War Horses to Royalty. 

thanks to wiki commons galleries I can corral here some of this works

 

Sculptural work - eg the monument to a fallen cavalryman Edward Horner, and the Brown Jack, Irish-bred gelding and famous racehorse.

 

 

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