Horse Portrait 2023

Directed by Witold Giersz · Animation · 5 min

Painterly impressions of the silhouette of a horse, its springy movements, the shape of the head, the fight of stallions. In addition to his own animation, the director presents studies on Leonardo da Vinci's horse, drawings by Pablo Picasso, Saul Steinberg and others, but also mythological figures such as a centaur and pegasus. It also shows how horses were painted by Japanese, Chinese and Paleolithic artists.