Genre
Lifesize - Heroic
Heroic sculpture comes to us from the very dawn of human art—we long to see our ideas develop on a grand scale—larger than life, in every sense. We are awed by what we must look up to see, we feel the impact of ideas in greater magnitude when those ideas take a form that is larger than our physical selves. Richard MacDonald never displays his essential nature as a sculptor better than when he creates Heroic sculptures that will carry his expression into an unknown posterity.
Flair Across America 1996
Momentum 2000
Stephen F. Austin 1986
Grand Coda 2016
Joie de Vivre 2007
Genre
Lifesize - Heroic
Heroic sculpture comes to us from the very dawn of human art—we long to see our ideas develop on a grand scale—larger than life, in every sense. We are awed by what we must look up to see, we feel the impact of ideas in greater magnitude when those ideas take a form that is larger than our physical selves. Richard MacDonald never displays his essential nature as a sculptor better than when he creates Heroic sculptures that will carry his expression into an unknown posterity.
The Artist's Touch
Richard MacDonald’s method of working by directly observing a living model is becoming increasingly rare amongst artists of our time. Developing the sensitivity and facility to watch a person in motion and capture anatomy, movement, mood, and personality in clay is an extraordinarily complex and demanding task, yet the quality of the work speaks to the vitality, energy, and power made possible by this experience.