Richard MacDonald
Bullwhip, Quarter Life, 2009
Bronze
19.5" x 12" x 12"
Richard MacDonald
The Guardian, Atelier, 2021
Bronze
15.25" x 11" x 11"
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A powerful, primeval figure The Guardian is an evocative character that takes the viewer’s imagination into the realm of legend just by his very nature — rugged, unknowable, and mysterious. Richly pigmented earthy tones warm the strong and balanced form of the man, and moves through a range of shades as our eye travels over the symmetry of the body, which is enlivened by a surface treatment that reveals the artist’s gesture in the original clay — swirling textural lines that wrap the muscularity like lines on a old master’s drawing. Tribal body paint, a headdress and a bullwhip add to the intrigue of The Guardian.
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