http://standpointmag.co.uk/taxonomy/term/22 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://standpointmag.co.uk/art-sept-10-michael-prodger-poetry-in-motion-eadweard-muybridge-alice-neel <p><b>Author:</b>Michael Prodger</p><p style="text-align: justify"><br />Romantic bohemian: Alice Neel's &quot;Pregnant Woman&quot;, 1971 </p><p style="text-align: justify">In 1760-1, George Stubbs painted Racehorses Belonging to the Duke of Richmond Exercising at Goodwood. It shows the duke watching three of his thoroughbreds training. The horses gallop out of frame in a line, both front and back legs fully extended as pairs. This would have meant that the gallop was really a series of extended bunny hops. It was a longstanding pictorial convention that didn't seem odd to Stubbs — a scientist of the horse as well as its greatest artist — or to viewers for a century and more afterwards. Horses' legs move too fast for the human eye to distinguish the actual sequence of stretch and contraction as they run: Stubbs painted what he thought happened, not what actually did. </p><p><a href="http://standpointmag.co.uk/art-sept-10-michael-prodger-poetry-in-motion-eadweard-muybridge-alice-neel"><span>read more</span></a></p> http://standpointmag.co.uk/art-sept-10-michael-prodger-poetry-in-motion-eadweard-muybridge-alice-neel#comments Art Alice Neel Art Eadweard Muybridge Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:29:31 +0100 Frances Weaver 3305 at http://standpointmag.co.uk