paintings of horses

[ketchupkid]

hi, im trying to illustrate the importance and link between physics and art and there's one particular picture of a horse race/derby that i saw in the fitzwilliam museum in cambridge last week but can't remember who it is by. if anyone knows or knows a similar picture that would be very helpful. the key feature is that all the horses feet were off the ground, which isn't how horses actually run. thanks for any help

[gen2]

During a gallop, there is a phase where all four legs are off the ground at the same time.

On this site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallop there is an animated gif which shows it and it then says:

In 1892, Leland Stanford settled an argument about whether galloping horses were ever fully airborne: he paid photographer Eadweard Muybridge to devise an apparatus with multiple trip wires attached to camera shutters. The photos, the first documented example of high-speed photography, clearly showed the horse airborne.

[gen2]

Maybe the painting was this one called "The Derby at Epsom" by Theodore Gericault in 1821.

http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000029299.html

The horses all have all four legs off the ground but not in the correct configuration.

[ketchupkid]

thanks thats really helpful its not picture i was thinking of but its useful anyway as its really similar

[mike b]

...this gives me an excuse to air my Pet Theory on the famous collapse of Devon Loch, with Dick Francis up, in the 1956 Grand National - realising that he was going to win, the horse decided to adopt a classic Stubbs posture for onlooking artists, with disastrous results...

[jno]

Eadweard Muybridge was born Edward Muggeridge, I believe, but decided he wanted a fancier name. Artists.

[CT]

If you're trying to link physics and art you couldn't do worse than check through the Hubble catalogue. Simple but beatiful. The images have to be put together from different frames in different colours. The pics don't come like the image straight from the telescope. They have to be 'put together' from the different wavelength images of the same source. Just a thought.