Southewestern Art, May 1980
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Lincoln Fox
TWO-HORNED PRIEST, bronze, h 22 1/2 Courtesy of McAdoo Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
below: SHAMAN WITH OWL, bronze, h 25 Courtesy of Joe Bryant's Gallery Eleven Lubbock, Texas
The modeling media I prefer for this scale is oil-based clay or plaster of Paris; sometimes I combine several materials in the same work. For example, SHAMAN WITH BEAR SKULL was modeled in just such a fashion. The face was wax, the upper torso clay, and the lower portions were plaster. Each material wants to be handled in a certain way. If the artist is sensitive to his media, he can have the best of many worlds. This piece contrasts detail against extremely loose handling. The upper portion is rather detailed, while the lower surface has more freedom.
MCM: Are you inspired by the work of others; if so, who and what inspires you?
LF: Almost anyone's work that excites me also influences me. But I would have to list several people, in order of influence - Michelangelo, Rodin, Brancusi, Henry Moore, Leonard Baskin, Marino Marini and Albert Einstein. Although each ones' work is different in visual appearance, each artist has certain things in common. They each broke away from the normal proportions of their subject for the purpose of heightening emotion. They all realized the power of distortion They saw that aesthetic form can be independent of the subject.