Student work uncovered: the challenge of capturing movement

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• Exciting work – it’s good to see the internal debate and progression into abstraction.

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• Can I ask what level painting course this is? For some context?

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  • This is a level 2 painting student

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• It is interesting to see how horses have been painted throughout history. Didn’t Velazquez and others before him use dead horses as models? I’m sure I read somewhere that he had one strung up in his studio. This would account for the static, bloated look his horses had. Before Muybridge showed artists that horses move in a particular way, artists also used to have the forelegs moving together and the back legs moving together, which gave them a rocking- horse look. It’s a fascinating subject.

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