Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Cavaliere 3 (1953)
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Cavaliere 3 (1953)
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Image View:
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Detail, figure bareback on horse from front
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Creator:
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Marino Marini (Italian sculptor, 1901-1980)
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Location:
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repository: Museo di Marino Marini (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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in the former church of San Pancrazio
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GPS:
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+43.771836+11.249975
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Date:
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1953 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Expressionist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Work Type 2:
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equestrian statue
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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cement
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Technique:
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casting (process)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; animal; cycles or series; human figure; horsemen; horses; knights; horse and rider
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Description:
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After 1946 Marini returned to Milan where he produced variations on the theme of Horsemen, Warriors and Jugglers, which expressed ever more urgently Marini’s anguish over the uncertainties of the time. They symbolized the destruction of the myth of the heroic victor. In contrast with the noble figures of the 1930s, the Horsemen reappeared in 1946 as disorientated, tragic characters. A sense of tension is conveyed by the contrast between the horizontal lines of the vast back, long lowered neck and flattened head of the horse, and the vertical horseman, erect with fear. The harshness of the image is increased by the simplification of the forms, the rider without ears and with round, sunken eyes. As well as using bronze, Marini appreciated that the simplicity of stone and particularly clay and wood was well suited to this drastic simplification of form. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-MARINI-MM-C3-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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