Modern Art
Inspired by El Greco, Pablo Picasso introduced horses into his work in 1906. Franz Marc and others including Susan Rothenberg in the 1970s used horses as motifs in their paintings throughout the 20th century. For a large and complex 20th century war painting in which a horse is the central dramatic figure, see Guernica by Pablo Picasso. While Impressionist painter Edgar Degas was particularly famous for his paintings of dancers, Degas was also known for his paintings of horses and horse racing.
Pablo Picasso, Boy Leading a Horse, 1906, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Picasso's Rose period masterpiece, recalls the painting of El Greco. Susan Rothenberg, (Untitled, Horse), 1979Read more about this topic: Horses In Art, Subject Genres
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“Not “Seeing is Believing” you ninny, but “Believing is Seeing.” For modern art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“There is no mystery in a looking glass until someone looks into it. Then, though it remains the same glass, it presents a different face to each man who holds it in front of him. The same is true of a work of art. It has no proper existence as art until someone is reflected in it—and no two will ever be reflected in the same way. However much we all see in common in such a work, at the center we behold a fragment of our own soul, and the greater the art the greater the fragment.”
—Harold C. Goddard (1878–1950)