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Richard MacDonaldCapeo Flamenco2002
2002
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Some say the word Flamenco comes from the Spanish, flama, or “flame.” Richard MacDonald’s Flamenco Series employ that definition on many levels. While the studies depict a male figure at various stages of the passionate dance – Capeo, Braceo, and Suspension - the touch of the artist’s hand remains palpable in the works as if he has just now put down his tools and stepped away. Always absorbed by human theater, MacDonald gravitated to dancer Jordi Caballero whose authentic and entertaining Latin-based choreography is internationally known. Jordi inspired MacDonald to begin a series of works that examine the flamenco’s sensual composition. Like the dancer, the studies portray the steps and tensions of passion and seduction. While he works, the artist becomes part of the dance, and the finished sculptures contain the flamenco’s energy even as his fascination with surface suggests the dance’s symbolic obsession. In “Capeo” we see the dramatic moment of the dancer’s cape, blurring movement and emotional intensity.
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- Creator:Richard MacDonald (1946, American)
- Creation Year:2002
- Dimensions:Height: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)Depth: 17 in (43.18 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Laguna Beach, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 201609-361stDibs: LU4908450222
Richard MacDonald
There are artists and there are masters. Richard MacDonald will go down in the history of sculpture as Picasso did painting, as an unequivocal master of the art.
Only a number of people can master craftsmanship, far fewer, the art of the human form. Figurative sculpture is a language MacDonald speaks with astounding fluency, and as with any language, MacDonald’s creative drive is formed from a need to share the universal dialect of the human figure with those who understand it; this is the unique privilege the artist affords his viewers.
MacDonald captures the beauty, romance and essence of the human spirit in motion. Influenced by the expressiveness in the figures of Renaissance master Donatello, the emotional intensity of works by 19th century French sculptor Auguste Rodin, and the power of Michelangelo’s sculptures, MacDonald’s inspirational, sensitive works are precisely of the moment, yet profoundly historic by reference. And they dance rhythmically for all to see — in the leap and grace of the dancer, the power of the athlete, the gesture and passion of lovers, the spirit rises, and MacDonald captures it.
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