Ippic picture: horses in all possible angles

In painting there is an Appic subgenre, the main theme of which is the depiction of horses. The isolation of the painting dedicated to these animals into a separate subspecies suggests that horses are in the lead in the pictures of animal artists.

Great French hippodrome

Previously, almost every English house had an animalistic picture. Horses were particularly revered in this country. And there is nothing surprising in the fact that it was here that the animal subgenre of animal studies originated (the image of animals). He flourished in the XVIII-XIX centuries. An important place among the artists-hippologists is Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) - a vivid representative of French Romanticism. He was very fond of horses, he especially succeeded in depicting horses, one only needs to look at his picture of a wounded cuirassier resting on his battle horse.

And how he painted a horse, tormented by a lion! Theodore Gericault painted horses amazingly, but still went to England to perfect himself in depicting his beloved animals. Remarkable is any of his paintings. Horses are written down to them in the smallest detail, with great love and knowledge of the topic. And the sadder to realize is the fact that he died in the prime of his life and talent, having fallen from his horse.

Russian hippologists

Among Russian artists, too, had their own classics of the genre. Who in the world does not know the famous horses of Peter Klodt on the Anichkov Bridge in the center of the Northern capital? These are four sculptural groups. But the picturesque canvases dedicated to these graceful animals, he worked out extraordinarily. For example, written in 1860, the painting "Horses". The resting animals depicted on it look quite like living things.

Among the many Russian artists drawing horses, stand out Nikolai Sverchkov, Eugene Lansere and Franz Roubaud. The latter is known for its panoramas dedicated to the Battle of Borodino, the defense of Sevastopol, the assault and capture of the stakes of Imam Shamil - the village of Akhulgo. In all these epic works there are many horses.

The illustrations of Yevgeny Lansere to LN Tolstoy's novel "Hadji Murad" are widely known. The picture, the horses on which carry riders on the edge of the cliff, is particularly good. It feels the tension of both horses and murids, satellites of Hadji Murad, descending from the mountains. And the famous "Tachanka" by MB Grekov? What vzmylennye strong horses, rushing in all the speed, it is imprinted!

One of the oldest images

There are infinitely many paintings devoted to these beautiful animals. It seems that there is no moment in the life of a horse not captured by any artist - pounded in battle, calm at the watering place, old nags and frisky foals - they always find a response in the heart of the viewer. The horses were painted from the beginning of the century, from the very moment when the first painter picked up the coal and went to the wall of the cave. Horses are depicted on icons, for example, dedicated to the saints Boris and Gleb or the miracle of the archangel Michael. Everyone knows the symbol of Moscow, where George the Victory-Bearer kills the serpent on his horse.

Red horse

Speaking about the work of artists, hippology, you can not ignore Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and his famous canvas, dedicated to bathing a red horse. This is not an ordinary oil painting in his work . Horses of red color are found on other of its canvases. But it is this work that is included in the list of 100 best paintings in the world of painting.

A powerful red horse carrying a young unskillful rider from the water shook his contemporaries, who saw in it a similarity with Russia. The canvas inspired poets - Yesenin in one of his works compared his life with the running of a pink horse in the early frosty morning. The King of Sweden in 1914 handed Petrov-Vodkin a certificate and a medal. Written in 1912, the work prophetically predicted the red fate of Russia.

The most popular image

About horses and canvases, on which they are depicted, you can write infinitely many. There are among them works on which horses are depicted in different angles or even fragmentarily (the famous horse groats of Gericault), there are images of the herd, there are, and there are many such paintings on which two horses are painted.

The picture of Nikolai Egorovich Sverchkov, the famous Russian hippologist, is surprisingly good. It depicts the heads of white and bay horses. The work is very popular with the handymen who embroider the cross. Now in wide access you can see an infinite number of pictures and pictures drawn with computer graphics, which depict two horses rushing along the seashore, a green meadow, along the prairies, etc. Obviously, the images of these animals are again in vogue.