Chincoteague Carousel
I grew up with real ponies, and collecting models, as well as drawing them on every surface.
Needless to say I am the world's biggest horse art critic... (most modern manufacturers of toys have never seen a real horse).
I adore carousels, because the classic ones came from an age when the artists knew horses. Most carousel horses were somewhat stylized, either romantically with wild eyes and flying manes, or in impossible "flying horse" poses (because Muybridge had not yet shown the world how horses actually move, with photography), but it was from a place of KNOWING horses. Even the primitive types of "flying horses" as my dad called them, the little carousels that went around to fairs and carnivals, were stylized with grace.
Chincoteague has a carnival in July that ends with Pony Penning. Among the small stable of rides is a fine carousel, styled like a classic one.
Needless to say I am the world's biggest horse art critic... (most modern manufacturers of toys have never seen a real horse).
I adore carousels, because the classic ones came from an age when the artists knew horses. Most carousel horses were somewhat stylized, either romantically with wild eyes and flying manes, or in impossible "flying horse" poses (because Muybridge had not yet shown the world how horses actually move, with photography), but it was from a place of KNOWING horses. Even the primitive types of "flying horses" as my dad called them, the little carousels that went around to fairs and carnivals, were stylized with grace.
Chincoteague has a carnival in July that ends with Pony Penning. Among the small stable of rides is a fine carousel, styled like a classic one.
