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Over the next few months, I'm going to be uploading some of my favourite photos. You'll be able to see them all together by clicking the photography link on the left hand side, or clicking on the photography tag on any photograph post.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
![Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1914) Le Grand Cheval
Harking back to a recent visit to the Tate Modern, I managed to track down an image of one of my favourite sculptures. There’s something really lively about this sculpture; you can almost see the shoulder and hip joints winding up to jump. Alex pointed out to me that in 1914, the world had just started moving over from horse-power to engine-power, and this sculpture really captures that transition. Unfortunately you can only see it from one side here and you lose the whole 3D effect, but there are many images online taken from all angles.
Duchamp-Villon was an expert horseman, serving as an auxiliary doctor in a cavalry regiment during the war. This sculpture developed from his studies of a leaping horse and rider to become an abstract evocation of dynamic energy and power. His work has been compared to that of the Futurists in the way it aims to capture a sense of motion. The tension between the mechanistic and the natural world echoes that between solid bronze and the representation of movement. [From The Tate Modern]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l07xc88ySN1qbp44wo1_500.jpg)
Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1914) Le Grand Cheval
Harking back to a recent visit to the Tate Modern, I managed to track down an image of one of my favourite sculptures. There’s something really lively about this sculpture; you can almost see the shoulder and hip joints winding up to jump. Alex pointed out to me that in 1914, the world had just started moving over from horse-power to engine-power, and this sculpture really captures that transition. Unfortunately you can only see it from one side here and you lose the whole 3D effect, but there are many images online taken from all angles.
Duchamp-Villon was an expert horseman, serving as an auxiliary doctor in a cavalry regiment during the war. This sculpture developed from his studies of a leaping horse and rider to become an abstract evocation of dynamic energy and power. His work has been compared to that of the Futurists in the way it aims to capture a sense of motion. The tension between the mechanistic and the natural world echoes that between solid bronze and the representation of movement. [From The Tate Modern]
