Word: gait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JAMES LEE Byars strolls the little garden of the Busch-Reisinger Museum like an aristocrat who is more accustomed to walking across acres of a grassy estate. He wears a black hat, a black silk scarf, a black coat, black pants, white buckskins, and has the gait of a dreamer entranced by a grander age. It is not so strange that a man with such an uncommonly impeccable appearance should have created something inside the Busch-Reisinger entitled "The Exhibition of Perfect...
...Pisanello in the 15th century to Giambologna in the 16th, consulted the Venice horses; when Leonardo da Vinci was faced with the problem of designing a horseback monument to the Milanese warrior Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, he took them as his starting point, varying their massive poses and calm, advancing gait in numerous drawings, five exquisite examples of which are in the Met show. Only when the 17th century-under the influence of Rubens and Bernini-demanded more intricate, twisting, rearing, active poses for the horse in art did the pervasive influence of these creatures decline. Yet even then...