purely descriptive,” he told a reporter
for the Los Angeles Times.
We may never understand the
inspiration behind the spotted horses
of Pech Merle. “It depends on what
was going through the artist’s mind,
and that’s tough to fi gure out,” says
Sponenberg. “So, while it could be that
such spotted horses were out there, it
equally could be artistic license.”
One thing is certain: For as long
as people have known horses,
we’ve been drawing and painting them
with spots.Reference: “Genotypes of predomestic
horses match phenotypes painted
in Paleolithic works of cave art,”
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, November 2011FR
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Artist: KobaCirca 1850
to 1900:
“Spotted Horse,”
possibly from
Pennsylvania,
in pen and ink
plus watercolor
on paper1912 : “Jumping Horse,”
German, oil on canvas
Artist: Franz Marc1984 : Untitled, from the Lascaux Series
Artist: Elaine de Kooning, color lithograph
on wove paper, photo by Laura Shea1653 : “The Spotted
Horse,” Dutch, oil on panel
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