February 7, 2012
Now That’s a Horse of a Different Color: Diana Thater, The Future Was An Illusion, 1997, an iris print recently acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. In these days of Photoshop, no one wonders how the artist achieved the effect of multicolored horses, maybe a commentary on skin color in humans, or race relations. But for some of us, the image inevitably evokes a scene in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and pals travel the Emerald City in a carriage led by a color-changing horse. The story goes that since the ASPCA wouldn’t let the filmmakers dye the live animals used in the scene, they applied tinted gelatin powder, which the creatures consistently tried to lick off.  The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/Gift of Laurence Rickels.

Now That’s a Horse of a Different Color:

Diana Thater, The Future Was An Illusion, 1997, an iris print recently acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. In these days of Photoshop, no one wonders how the artist achieved the effect of multicolored horses, maybe a commentary on skin color in humans, or race relations.

But for some of us, the image inevitably evokes a scene in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and pals travel the Emerald City in a carriage led by a color-changing horse. The story goes that since the ASPCA wouldn’t let the filmmakers dye the live animals used in the scene, they applied tinted gelatin powder, which the creatures consistently tried to lick off. 

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/Gift of Laurence Rickels.

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