Progression of art and the horse
...d craving, of these the horse is a repeated image used at the time to represent the animalism of the human spirit. The wild pride and noble nature that could adapt and endure even the harshest of times, unlike the dog or bison who did not share man’s role in shaping the world around them. Beyond the cave, the horse has been used by humans for a symbol of power and the pride, used as a working tool to construct massive cities and road ways to the longest lasting method of warfare, yet. Generals, kings, and those of any power have all been captured in art as the horse and rider leading the charge and posed in some majestic almost god like stature and in reverse art was used like the horse as a method to display wealth and propagate power; One image in time that might represent this the best is that of Alexander the Great a stride his mythical war horse cast from bronze in a sculpture that still imposes itself as larger than life on all those who see it today. As with the passage of time though, all things age and change. Stiles presented the successions of horse related artwork through the ages and even into the current where sadly artwork seems to have taken on the horse’s fate. From noble and maje...