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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
The hare mimics a classic balletic pose by standing on point on it's right leg with it's knee bent and the left leg bent and raised in front. The hare looks forward towards the outstretched right paw, left front leg bent and placed on the side of the left rib cage.
This long-limbed hare elegantly mimics a classic ballet pose by standing en pointe on its right leg with its knee bent and the left leg bent and raised in front. The Irish-Welsh sculptor Barry Flanagan started sculpting hares in the late 1970s, moving away from conceptual art and towards figuration. This work is modelled after the ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, a celebrated member of the Ballet Russes who was renowned for his gravity-defying leaps. The heavy and static material of bronze has become full of life, lightness and movement.
