‘Bouquet’, Galloping 1887
eadweardmuybridge
pencil drawn
teenage art
possibly oil pastel
acrylic on canvas
watercolour illustration
tonal art
a lot negative space
remaining negative space
sketchbook art
watercolor
Eadweard Muybridge's 1887 photographic sequence, "Bouquet, Galloping", captures the movement of a horse in a series of 16 still images. This work, part of his renowned "Animal Locomotion" series, showcases Muybridge's pioneering use of chronophotography, a technique that broke down motion into individual frames, paving the way for the development of cinema. The resulting imagery offers a scientific and artistic exploration of animal movement, revolutionizing our understanding of how creatures move in space.
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Eadweard Muybridge is a major forerunner of modern photography. He demonstrated early on that a camera ‘sees’ more, and better, than the human eye. He began making studies of motion in 1872 to settle the question whether all four legs of a horse are off the ground at the same time when galloping. And, indeed, horses ‘float’. Many a painting turns out to be based on a misunderstanding.
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