War Horse - Picasso

 

War Horse - Picasso

51.5" x 34.5" Watercolor, Ink, Gouache, Acrylic and Graphite - August 18, 2022 to September 20, 2022
  • Pair with Mars
  • Picasso is a pinto mustang from the wild horses in the Sand Wash Basin in Colorado. He is famous - wild, but named. I love that certain animals have the power to be recognized as individuals, we of course personify them, but we see some quality that we connect with and the myth of that animal with its "super-powers" will spread and gain fame.
  • Wild horses are like the elements. This creature is filled with light, fire, air and water, boulders even. He moves with these active forces bound into shape, against the odds. He is a self-contained eco system with passengers, souls, the wild. He IS space.
  • Water. It isn’t protected, yet, but it is diminishing, and we will suffer horribly for its scarcity.
  • Lands that lose protection under the governing bodies that are in place to protect them.
  • We humans make terrible custodians.
  • The San Diego Museum of Art had a wonderful Impressionist show that I saw so many times. There was a tiny Odilon Redon Pegasus that fed into this horse. It had the brightest red and a rough way about it that felt spontaneous and "in motion".