Bronze Sculptures by Richardo Angel Norte
Home
Artist Biography
Artist Statement
Galleries





 

Artist Statement

Our time is one of self-conscious, prolonged unfulfilled spiritual identity.   We need to rediscover values like timeless beauty and honesty which are not the main subjects in contemporary art today.   Yet, to me, art needs to speak to my heart and this is my focus when I create.   

My work is about rediscovering and sensing our spiritual feelings and our struggle to find balance with the world we live in today.   I mainly conceive my ideas in dreams or prayers.  There is a search for comprehension, love, honesty, valor, and spirituality.  I often express this search through figures set in conflict that is a fusion of dream scape and organic nature.   It is a world between the physical and the spiritual, a timeless place within our history as humans.  

It is important to me that my work emanates a sense of raw strength as well as an almost mysterious spiritual feeling.   Reflecting us as spiritual beings, but also bound to an earth we struggle to live in and understand.  

A word about a great sculptor I study and greatly admire - Donatello.

Donatello has no equal except Michelangelo.

"On the threshold of the Quattrocentro Donatello invented a mode for the heroic representation of adolescence and grace which illustrates this new awareness of the dignity and excellence of man, of his virtue, which the humanists celebrated thenceforth.1"

1 p. 557 "Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present Day", TASCHEN.




Richardo Angel Norte - Official Web Site - 2261 Market Street, #117 - San Francisco, CA. - 94114 - (925) 639-0102
All images and content Copyright. Richardo Norte Sculpture reserves all rights to sculptures and sculpture designs. No use or duplication without written consent.