Richard MacDonald
Richard MacDonald
Richard MacDonald is a California-based contemporary figurative artist known for his bronze sculptures...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
CountryUnited States of America
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I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics.
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I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.
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I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions.
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I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.
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I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands.
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I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn't think I'd make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, 'Wear it like your underwear.'
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I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture.
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These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.
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China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression.
pieces driven one-time
At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.
lasts sculpture painting
Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.
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I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.
heart mind my-heart
I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.
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I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.