Karl von Laufen - Children on Horseback

The iconography of this painting certainly has allegorical meanings and can be defined, in some ways, as symbolist precisely because of its allusion to underlying meanings. It is a type of subject that can be traced back to the artistic language of late nineteenth-century painters such as Moreau, Bocklin, or Puvis des Chavannes, who, while using a primarily figurative language, developed intellectually complex iconographies, full of symbolic, allegorical, and, in particular, literary references.

As we can see from an analysis of this painting, painter Karl Von Laufen is an artist who begins with tangible reality and then transforms the subject in an expressionistic manner. Indeed, the depiction of these boys on horseback has a strong realistic connotation, free of idealization, charged with sincerity and even truth. However, the subject undergoes some anti-naturalistic distortions to become more expressive: thus, the physiognomic features become more generalized, shifting the figure from the plane of reality to that of the symbol. The meanings assumed by the subject broaden and become broader. Von Laufen's pictorial approach, which features a highly textured color, also contributes to this expressive characterization.

Artist Karl Von Laufen is engaged in an interesting stylistic exploration. He begins with tangible reality but distorts it in an expressionistic manner. All of this is elaborated according to this artist's highly original vision, which includes the use of textured painting.

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