art sparks art: The Huntress

Friday, January 6, 2012

The Huntress


David Chancellor, Huntress with Buck, 2010

David Chancellor was awarded the 2010 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London for Huntress with Buck. What strikes me first about the photograph is how her crimson hair matches the horse's coat. The orange hue is set ablaze through being enhanced by its complementary colour blue. Her unassuming gaze acknowledges the viewer and the interplay between her majesty and fragility, accompanied by a weighty buck, seems all the more apparent. One questions the practicality of how she lifted the prey onto her horse. I enjoy the huntress' shoes as they are a clue to which time period she belongs.


Claude Deruet (1588 - 1660), Duchess of Chevreuses as Diana the Huntress

Diana (lt. "heavenly" or "divine") was the goddess of the hunt, being associated with wild animals and woodland, and also of the moon in Roman mythology.


Gaston Casimir Saint-Pierre (1833 - 1916), Diana the Huntress

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In the visual arts, the term appropriation often refers to the use of borrowed elements in the creation of new work. The borrowed elements may include images, forms or styles from art history or from popular culture, or materials and techniques from non-art contexts. There are patterns in art which are self-repeating and when we see them, we are often absorbed by them. Art sparks art is a space that I will use to post findings of appropriation or alternatively, I will post threads that are linked through a continuity in theme.