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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Comanche Feats of Horsemanship is a 1834-35 oil on canvas painting by artist George Catlin . It depicts a young man from the Comanche Nation utilizing a war on horseback technique, where he can flexibly drop his body to the side of the horse while riding it, effectively dodging enemies.
Indians on Horseback is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1911 by the German Expressionist painter August Macke.It was created when the artist was under the influence of Cubism and had joined Der Blaue Reiter group through his friend Franz Marc.
Horse-drawn chariot carved onto the mandapam of Airavatesvara Temple, Darasuram, c. 12th century. Krishna, Arjuna at Kurukshetra, 18th- to 19th-century painting.. The horse has been present in the Indian subcontinent from at least the middle of the second millennium BC, [1] more than two millennia after its domestication in Central Asia. [2]
The horse appears less frequently in modern art, partly because the horse is no longer significant either as a mode of transportation or as an implement of war. Most modern representations are of famous contemporary horses, artwork associated with horse racing, or artwork associated with the historic cowboy or Native American tradition of the ...
' long-ears' or 'neighing aloud' ') [1] is a seven-headed flying horse, created during the churning of the ocean. It is considered the best of horses, as prototype and king of the horses. [1] Uchchaihshravas is often described as a vahana of Indra, but is also recorded to be the horse of Bali, the king of the asuras.
Jeffery Gibson, a sculptor with American Indian heritage, told art historian Shannon Vittoria, "I saw [End of the Trail] as an image of a shamed, defeated Indian. It always made me feel badly about myself, and I wondered if this was this really how the rest of the world viewed us, as failures. It seemed to be an image about defeat and despair." [1]
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A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses is a watercolor painting by Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya. The painting was finished circa 1845 in Calcutta, India. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is an example of Company painting by Indian artists for the British in India. [1] [2] [3]