Saskatchewan sculptor Joe Farfard’s work inspired generations of visual artists GlobeArts
Joe Fafard shown beside pieces of his work on display at McMichael Canadian Art Collection on Kleinburg, Ont. on July 1, 2018.Joe Fafard, the acclaimed Canadian sculptor and painter who made art inspired by the Prairie landscape, its people and animals – most famously its cows – died on Saturday. He was 76.
“I always used [cows] as a kind of plastic material that could speak of ideas, that I could explore aspects in art through this image that is the cow," Fafard told The Globe and Mail in 2008, as a retrospective of his work organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina and the NGC opened at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ont."For instance, a musician that has a violin. He constantly uses the violin and brings the sounds out from it.
He originally worked in clay but shifted to bronze as his chief sculptural medium in 1985. At the time, there was no appropriate foundry nearby, so he bought some land and started his own foundry in Pense, west of Regina. He lived for years north of there, in Lumsden, in the Qu’appelle Valley.
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