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Instllment N°9 in the Horse seriesRelated content
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His pack's leader. Watching for competition, ready for battle. A real warrior of a horse.... Poised, yet powerful. So glad you like him too
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I like them ALL! 
Thank you for posting them all.
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A horse-lover, are you? If I posted one, I had to post them all. I felt so guilty for not giving anything back to the site, that I let myself be convinced in spite of my fear of exposure. But if even just a few people like them, it was worth it!
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Now you know that I love horses, your technique and that I am
a little crazy.
Of course all must be posted.
I, WE, thank you so much.
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That you were (a little?) crazy I have already been witness of - unexpectedly witnessing one of you exchanges with Ursula. I even commented later on that you were crazy-mad, and if you were the standard for being accepted into your loonie-house, I would never make it - although I do have my own brand of madness.
As for the horses, I suspected Ursula of asking you tu have a look and comment, as a personal favour... but you are obviously a genuine horse-lover, and I should apologise to her for my suspicious thoughts.
And for my 'style'... didn't know I had one. Do you think you could enlighten me?
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First, Ursula never asked me, or said anything that I should go and look
in your gallery. We where at the moment chatting/fooling around about getting
a Pizza in Rome.. and she would be my knight in shining armor, rescuing
me from the terrible mustard in Dijon.. Somewhere there she put in a link
showing me her horse. That's the way it was. The rest you know.
I take full responsibilty of my actions. No shadow may fall on Ursula.
As for acceptance.. You are "loonie" enough. You are now accepted, as crazy
and/or sane/insane, happy/unhappy, mammalian/nonmamallian you are.
Style.. Since I have no education or knowledge about such things it's difficult
for me to define and describe... It would probably be smarter of me to just
keep my mouth shut and ignore your question/plea. But we have already
touched the subject. The "sketchy", little more free.. the (excuse me) "wild"
way you have.. it's in all of the horses. There somewhere your "style" can be
found, in the balance between translation, tecnique and abstraction. 
It would have been clearer if I just had kept silent I suspect.
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Alright. My bad about Ursula. She told me about your riding to Rome for a Pizza, and it was so preposterous, all I found to say was that getting from Vienna to Rome on horseback would take you over a week, and that you might get slightly hungry, thristy and tired before then. Saying nothing of the horses, about which, in any way, she had told me she was petrified to get close to. I am such a rationalist that it never came to my logical mind that this might be one of those loony games of yours...
You see how 'loony' I am. I do have a kind of madness, but it is of quite another nature... Even if I am accepted, which is generous, I would never fit...
As for the style, the sketcky part came from those drawings' training function - I used them to experiment on movement, expression, shadow/light, anatomy... I do revendicate the'wildness', this comes right from the core of who I am... You could say that I am, basically, a wild animal. So much for the translation and technique. As for the abstraction, I developped a slowly more minimalistic, generic concept of 'horse', insisting on movement, light, shadow and expressiveness, trying to leave unnecessary details out.
Your explanation was quite clear. 
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Oh, it was terrible.. First I drive from sweden.. I remember turning left in the
middle of nowhere and find myself in Dijon. It was cold and dark.. and the local police
was not too nice. And I don't speak french at all.. it was terrible. And the mustard
Anyway.. U came and picked me up.. whattawoman *sigh* and we were going to Rome..
.. we never got there.. 
I wasn't so very worhless in my limited knowledge and limited vocabulary then?
Regarding art, all forms. It could be analysed and explained and scrutinized and
criticised and whatever.. But after all intellectualizing is done it's all a matter of taste.
I like, or I don't like. I happen to like your horses.
Thank you.
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OK, I'll try to satisfy myself with that. How should I be UNsatisfied, that you instinctively like my horsies?
Do you know I never showed them to anyone, not even my family, until I posted them at dA? Not only that, but they didn't even KNOW I had drawn them.... I didn't think they'd care. THAT's how much self -confidence I have. That's why I keep thanking you, I still can't believe anyone could be interested...
Don't mind me, it will pass... in time. 
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This is place where artists of almost any kind, anonymously, can share and show and
critize art. Nobody (almost nobody) care very much about the circumstances and
the background of an artist. If somebody likes my art, well good for me (=feels good
and gives me a certain pride) and good for "somebody" (=he/she did find something
that gave him/her some sort of enjoyment). Most of the ppl here are artists themselves,
and in that aspect dA is a club for mutual admiration.
You will get more 
"fine" they will get noticed. But it might take a while before the rings on the watersurface
have spread enough. I still get comments and favs on my very first deviations by ppl
I never even knew they existed.. not even fractalists.
can forgive me for saying it, I think you should try to enjoy the egotrip and appreciation.
You are/were good at sketching horses. I know, I've seen them all. Revel in that and
feel the satisfaction. Some day you might even, when nobody knows and nobody sees
it, try to put a pencil to a paper, just to check out if there still is something in the fingers
that like the feeling of the paper through the wood of the pencil... 
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Sorry, sorry for answering so late, some health problems I won't insist on. If you care to know more, ask Ursula, she knows the whole sorry story. I have probably become even more retiring than I used to be because of those - and I was never extraverted. All I can feel right now is a bit overwhelmed, since it's always only been just my drawings (or paintings, or writings) and me. No one ever saw or read any of them, and I don't know if I should be glad or not that anybody can, now. I believe I'd be just as happy if it were ony you, Ursula, and Suzanne people I know (a bit) and appreciate (a lot).
Your last comment, though, is right on target..... Will this reawaken at last these mixed feelings of fear, anticipation and elation that come with the birth and developpement of any form of art....
The answer is: certainly not before some serious physical problems are solved...
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Dear Agnés,
No problem regarding your "late" answering.
I know I could ask Ursula, and I also know that it's not the way I like to
do it. I know as much as you have revealed in comments on U's pictures.
I am sorry about the health issues. Some of it I can probably relate to, and
some not. Some day you might tell me, or chose to not to tell me.
Regarding the sharing of your art.. You could be glad that some people
(including me) became a happier and more humble persons by experience
your art. That is also a factor that should mean something.
Now, my friend, I must get some sleep. It's been a long day.. and I have
already made a fool out of me by writing an erroneous message a few minutes
ago.
Good Night.
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