Esteban Chavez

Four Horses, oil painting

"The Rider Comes Bearing Noise" stages a collision between mythic image and epistemological decay. It turns the familiar figure of the rider into an emissary of our time, evoking an ...

This oil painting is a fragmented and dynamic depiction of a horse rendered in a semi-abstract, expressionistic style. Bennett uses bold brush-strokes, drips and overlapping plane...

Oil based ink and paint monotype on fine printmaking paper. Painterly, lively representational image with symbolist abstracted marks.

Abstract, interior, landscape, animals. Oil on panel.

oil on wood

This 20" x 24" oil on canvas painting by David Crown dates to 1985. The focal point of this painting are three animal figures in the foreground rendered in...

Andalucia, where i live, is boasting to be an origin of the famouse Dancing Andalucian Horses. Myth and legend surround the story of the origin of the Andalucian horse breed. The traditional story proceeds along the lines of: an animal native to Spain, proud and noble of course, remaining pure in breed through the centuries from the mists of time. That story really does start in the mists of time. About 400 BC. Simon of Athens, Xenophon, and later in the 1st century AD, Columella and Saint Isodore of Seville in about 610 AD, defined the perfect horse. Collectively they described the ‘classical horse’. It should have a small head, black eyes, tiny, straight ears, a flexible, thick and not too long neck, a thick mane, wide chest, round belly, elevated movements, a long, silky, wavy tail and a round coup. From then onwards this model of a horse, that did not exist in reality, was represented in drawings, paintings, engravings and sculptures. In 1567, King Phillip...

"Grey Horses" by Fernand Audet (French, Tarascon 1923- Mulhouse 2016) oil painting on board, unframed painting: 16 x 13 inches A fine "mid century" oil painting by the listed Frenc...