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Archetype and Allegory: Marino Marini's Horses and Riders
by Ellen B. Cutler
Horses and riders constitute the great theme in the art of Italian sculptor Marino Marini (1901–1980). Early on, the equestrian motif references an Arcadian past. Alone, the horse is an archetypal image of nature; horse and rider together represent human existence within a harmonious cosmology. Over the course of thirty years, Marini’s horses, both ridden and riderless, evolve in form and spirit.
Fragmented and distorted, they become an expressionistic and abstract vehicle for Marini’s optimistic belief in human possibilities and his anguish at the devastation inflicted by humanity’s worst impulses...
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Rise and Fall of the Horseman
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