The theme of the 2021 BreyerFest Diorama Contest is Horses Throughout Art History. Participants were asked inspired by a piece of public domain/open access art. Many entrants - including the always amazing Erika Isbell -used paintings.
Emily Oakes' entry depicts Frederic Remington's paintings and sculpture coming to life in a museum setting. So fun!
Della Valenzuela was inspired by a fountain. She writes: For my diorama, I chose Francesco Fontebasso's (ca. 1740-60) architectural drawing for his "Design for a Fountain with Neptune in his Chariot" and created it to look as though it had been created in concrete. The scene depicts Neptune, two naiad (nymphs), a putto on a dolphin, and 4 mighty hippocampoi pulling Neptune's Chariot. I used three G2 Stablemates (the Clydesdale, Arabian and Morgan) and the M1 Marigold Arabian to create my hippocampoi and poured resin for the first time. It was a fun experience even if my plan to have running water didn’t quite work as I had planned.
Jasmine Lay's entry is a weather vane. She writes: It took me absolutely forever to decide on an art piece but this weather vane just spoke to me!
She used a Mini Whinny to create the vane.
The barn it's attached to is based on a New England style barn from around the 1860s, which is appropriate since the original weather vane was created in Massachusetts in 1860.
Laura Rock-Smith's inspirations was a piece of jewelry from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, entitled "Pendant Shaped as a Horseman".
Laura calls hers "Pendant with Prancing Horse". She writes: While the original had a rider, I chose to simplify the design and use just the streamer. A Stablemate Croi was used to create the horse. The pendant was crafted from wire and expoy. The whole thing was painted in gold and with white stippled over it to emulate the enamel over the gold of the original. Displayed as if it was on displayed at a museum.
Madison Rigney used a copy of her chosen art to create her diorama.
Museums are filled with pottery, so it's no surprise that someone - in this case, Jay Linds - was inspired by a pot.
Jay writes: I got super frustrated with this one because I'm not a sculptor or a potter, and I couldn't get it to be the right shape. But I am really happy with how it turned out... even though painting all those little birds was the worst.
Sara Roche has been wanting/meaning to enter the Diorama Contest since 2005. This year - finally! - the stars aligned and she was able to enter. She writes: Mine is based on the fragments left from the ancient world, in particular the Cypriot horse head.
For the scene, I built a museum for him to live in with other antiquities.
I just love all these extra details. Great job, Sara!
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