Artist: Jenny Watson
Date: 2014
Size: 162 x 184 cm
Museum: Ian Potter Museum of Art (Parkville, Australia)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Jenny Watson captures the power and beauty of champion race horse Black Caviar. Showing the thoroughbred in full flight, the painting suggests the raw speed only experienced by the jockey. The work is a portrait of a national icon composed in the established tradition: side on in full flight, and alone on the track. The work is based on a photograph of Black Caviar, which has been gridded and scaled up for the final composition. This substructure is still evident, the artist happy to divulge the technique employed. Each square of the grid upon closer inspection reveals itself as a small expressionistic painting, particularly evident in the lush green grass of the racetrack. Creating a tension between the distant and intimate viewing of the work, it is, as the subtitle declares,
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