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Brenda Moore: In Search of Lost Time
The horse鈥檚 robust autonomy is Moore鈥檚 ultimate challenge; she exerts the power of its body in The Sleep of Endymion or Moon Effect, 1791. By placing the horse in a complicated composition, she at once re-contextualizes the Old Master painting by Anne-Louis Girodet鈥檚 The Sleep of Endymion. Although archetypal, the horse is more than just a character. While her interest in the great French Romantic and Realist painters such as Gericault, Delacroix, and Courbet continue to inform her conceptual paintings, her starting point is purely academic and formal. She states, 鈥淭he horse remains at the center as subject of interest in anatomy, behavioral characteristics and functions metaphorically, fantastically wild and representationally in my work.鈥�
The horse鈥檚 robust autonomy is Moore鈥檚 ultimate challenge; she exerts the power of its body in The Sleep of Endymion or Moon Effect, 1791. By placing the horse in a complicated composition, she at once re-contextualizes the Old Master painting by Anne-Louis Girodet鈥檚 The Sleep of Endymion. Although archetypal, the horse is more than just a character. While her interest in the great French Romantic and Realist painters such as Gericault, Delacroix, and Courbet continue to inform her conceptual paintings, her starting point is purely academic and formal. She states, 鈥淭he horse remains at the center as subject of interest in anatomy, behavioral characteristics and functions metaphorically, fantastically wild and representationally in my work.鈥�
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