Two Piebald Blue Horses

Michele Avanti

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Michele Avanti

Roseburg, OR

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Title

Two Piebald Blue Horses

Artist

Michele Avanti

Medium

Painting - Painting

Description

Two Piebald Blue Horses, mixed media painting by Michele Avanti

The great American West and the Native American clashed and the American mustang got caught in the middle. Treasured by the American Indian, a piebald horse was considered powerful medicine. This painting is a tribute to these wonderful horses, to the Native Americans who treasured them and to the incredible power, speed and loyalty of the 'Big Dogs" as the Native Americans called them. Blue is the color because it is how I feel as I watch the destruction of these magnificent beings. Wherever there is greed, there is destruction and today the oil companies and developers want the wild land that these horses have roamed for centuries. These companies are pushing for round ups and the slaughter of the American mustang. Any proceeds from the sale of this image will go to Return To Freedom - a non-profit group that works to defend, save and preserve our horses.

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The mustang is a free-roaming horse of the American west that first descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish. Mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, but because they are descended from once-domesticated horses, they are properly defined as feral horses.
In 1971, the United States Congress recognized that "wild free-roaming horses and burros are living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West, which continue to contribute to the diversity of life forms within the Nation and enrich the lives of the American people."[1] In the 21st century, mustang herds vary in the degree to which they can be traced to original Iberian horses. Some contain a greater genetic mixture of ranch stock and more recent breed releases, while others are relatively unchanged from the original Iberian stock, most strongly represented in the most isolated populations.
The free-roaming mustang population is managed and protected by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Controversy surrounds the sharing of land and resources by the free-ranging mustangs with the livestock of the ranching industry, and also with the methods with which the federal government manages the wild population numbers. A policy of rounding up excess population and offering these horses for adoption to private owners has been inadequate to address questions of population control, and many animals now live in temporary holding areas, kept in captivity but not adopted to permanent homes. Advocates for mustangs also express concerns that the animals may be sold for horsemeat. Additional debate centers on the question of whether mustangs�and horses in general�are a native species or an introduced invasive species. Many methods of population management are used, including the adoption by private individuals of horses taken from the range.