As promised, Breyer revealed the Sneak Peek Square from their Breyerfest Blog. This is Muybridge, the Friday raffle model for Breyerfest 2021. He is dressed to the nines as a silver black splash done on the Icelandic mold. He is quite the dashing fellow!
Inspiration for Muybridge came from the English photographer, Eadweard Muybridge. Muybridge is known for his photographic study of animal and human movement, along with the invention of the zoopraxiscope. He is famous for establishing the sequence of movement in horses, notably if and when all four hooves were off of the ground simultaneously during the gallop. Hired by Leland Stanford to photograph Stanford’s horse, Occident, Muybridge demystified the gallop. Using a series of cameras to take still shots triggered by wires as Occident galloped by, Muybridge put the sequence of images together, creating movement:
Prior to this, horses depicted in art at a gallop were stretched out, with the front and back legs out from underneath the body. Notice that horses were shown airborne:
The discovery of the actual sequence of the gallop meant that the artists had been portraying the gait wrong. Not that it was their fault, as the human eye simply could not see where the hooves were when. This did cause some pushback, but Muybridge’s work did encourage artists to study locomotion to create accurate representations of horses while galloping. Unless you are Justify, who decided to strike a pose reminiscent of a nineteenth century painting:
He’s actually leaping, but talk about a perfect camera shot. Breyer even made a Limited Edition resin of Justify in that iconic pose:
As I’ve said previously, I wish Breyer would make this in plastic sans rider and tack. It’d be a shelf hog for sure, but what a wonderful shelf hog it would be!
*Icelandic Muybridge photos from Breyer’s website*
*Muybridge galloping horse found on internet (general information)*
*Various artist renderings of galloping horses from Pinterest*
*Photo from Justify from Pinterest*
*Photo of Breyer resin Justify from the Identify Your Breyer website*
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