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Yes - I went to London a couple of times to see Anselm Kiefer and Chinese painter, Chen Yi Fe. Also big Lucian Freud show. There was too much to take in, but I stood in front of Whistlejacket for about 15 mins. Stunning. Completely WASTED down there for great art.
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Send some of it up to the regions ffs.....also love Munnings - one eyed painter
 - so gifted...I've bought about 20 Sotheby's catalogues just to get decent prints of Munnings' paintings.Also like ANDRE PATER, a modern Polish painter based in Kentucky...he paints horses and jockeys in a Munnings-like style - kinda retro...really skillful. And, eh... |
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http://photo.blogs.timesdispatch.com/files/2013/04/vmfa02s-1024x738.jpg
Isidore Bonheur horse bronze...posted this a few months back, but......  |
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I can't post photo's for some reason, but the painting "Goodbye Old Friend" is one of the saddest things I've ever seen.
his is a stunning print of one of the most celebrated paintings of the first world war. A wonderful depiction of human emothion n times of conflict. Matanias work shows a young soldier tenderly cradling the head of his stricken horse, even as shells burst around him, and a comrade urges him onward. Matania was commissioned in 1916 by the Blue Cross fund to produce a picture illustrating the heroisn of the animals involved in the war. The blue cross fund has been set up by Our Dumb Friends league in 1912, to assists animals during the Balken war, and it later paid £130 for the painting. This was money well spent as the scene, subtitled An incident on the road to a battery position in Southern Flanders, achieved iconic status. The work was printed in numerous publications thoughout the world, with thw Belgium magazine Le Grande Guerre asserting, below the image Les Anglais ont pour leurs chevaux une grande amiti (The English have a great love for their horses). Over one million horses saw service with the british Army during the First world war. http://www.regimental-art.com/regimental_prints.php?ProdID=10409 |
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It is sad, Kenny. It's a "Pieta", really.
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Really! (having just googled Pieta)
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The soldier is cradling his dying horse and they've been through the war together - and the horse is a poor, innocent animal that gave its best. I reckon some old time viewers, at the time it was painted, would make the connection with the Michelangelo Pieta sculpture.
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Tasunke Witko
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a.k.a. Crazy Horse
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http://artpaintingartist.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/War-Pieta-by-Max-Ginsburg.jpg
This painting is horrific but very dramatic..."War Pieta". |
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That is evil!
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They'll do anything to stop Treve!
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I've 6 limited edition prints by Claire Eva Burton.
Love them and never get tired of looking at them with my favourite Mr Frisk but only because I bet it when it won the National in 1990. |
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I once tried to paint a horse and it was going really well until he knocked the can of paint over.
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'osses!
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Where have you been, Bodil? Thought you'd fell down one of them abstracty void-thingies in Dr. Strange comics.
Aka - she was the Queen Mother's fave painter - bet you knew that, though. Yours, Celtic 7 Rangers 1. The QM used to hang them in her box at Ascot...that's the kind of sentence you don't want to post on here. Mac = Diamond Geezer...thanks Mac. |
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Kenny - someone mentioned the racehorse Steinlen on another thread ; he was owned by the Wildensteins who probably owned more Steinlens than anyone else - Theophile Steinlen is famous for his cat paintings and posters...cats, cats, cats, cats...
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How dare you mention that horse
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Can't help it...I gotta story to tell...
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You, know...maybe he was just BETTER than Zilzal - you ever considered that?
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NO
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Remember backing him at 8/1 for the Arlington Million - also Sierra Roberta in France at 11/2, Carroll House at 9/2 in Ireland and Danehill at 5/2 or 7/2 - can't recall...wrote out the line with a £5 accie and £1 trebles...then I tore up the line and replaced Danehill with Kerrera...sheer greed. And I was only a young lad working in a removal van shifting pianos for tuppence-ha'penny a week!
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Irish Champion Stakes, Haydock Sprint Cup and Arc trials weekend 1989, We had decimal currency 18 years before that old chap
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Who the feck remembers Kerrera now? Not a soul, not even Michael Stoute or Wally Swinburn!
It's all Danehill THIS and Danehill THAT, from Australia to Timbuktu...Could have bought The Hispaniola for that kind of dough, back in them days. |
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Carroll House's Arc was the last i went to... backed the Ian Balding winner of the Abbaye, who's nme escapes me and i cant be arsed to google
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Hey, you're GOOD! Total Recall... Not actually sure what race Sierra Roberta won...only picked it because of the de Moussac bee colours, also known as "the devil's livery"...might have been some Group 2 race in France...bloody loved Trempolino...
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Silver Fling?
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Cap'n Zilzal, if I could have my forum time over again, my Username would be Trempolino1.
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Silver Fling was right..was there for Trempolino, Reference Point was odds on, got really ratarsed that day and had to go on the boat back to work ffs
That years runner up Tony Bin won next year, last feckin winner of the race i backed ffs.. mind you he was 33s ante post |
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Very sad that Cauthen got boo-ed, and Reference Point too. The horse didn't deserve that. That is the weirdest Arc in my opinion, the way the pace caused the field to collapse - never seen anything like it, and the horses at the back came through in three or four strides.
Actually dreamt this race just as it happened on the Friday night. |
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There was a parting of the waves as Tremp/Tony came through, fair old field as Triptych and Mtoto were also there, used to be a group of us, all LBO Managers who went for 4 years running, 1st was Dancing Braves one with Miesque also winning.
The dat was usually kicked off with Brandy and Coffee in a cafe |