RMW Ramblings

27 April 2021 POLYPTYCH & GROUP PAINTINGS   4. GALLOP DOCUMENTED   In Gallop Documented  my intent was to produce a triptych in a faux Fin de Siècle mode.  The individual panels are acrylic on canvasboard.  The galloping horse streaks past the photographer, who is capturing his gait. The image was inspired by the classic sequential photographs of action produced by Eadweard Muybridge.  Of course, Muybridge's photos were taken with multiple cameras; a photographer with a single camera, as in my painting, could not have made these multiple exposures with the technology of the late 19th century.  The Fin de Siècle conceit continues in the frame I fabricated. It echos the construction of 19th century photograph case/frames, and the wood cameras of that era.  I have signed the bottom of the frame with my name and an expansive notation of my credentials, typical of author and artist's labeling of that time. (But they are authentic, if irrelevant.)