Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Horse

Although politically outspoken and a card carrying democrat, Tony couldn't be squared away in one or another political or stylistic direction. He was neither left nor right, he was catholic, needed a god but didn't think there was one, and stylistically he couldn't care less about directions in contemporary style. If he cared just a bit about something, then it was to bend the rules. I think in many instances he stayed close to the iconography as one finds in the Indian petroglyphs and on the ledgers of Plains Indians. He would always try to capture the soul, rather than the faithful 'realistic' image. Just as he did in this horse.

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