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Joe Fafard Biography

Joseph Fafard, OC SOM (born September 2, 1942) is a Canadian sculptor.

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I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.

Clay, Together, Various, Wedged, Woods

His work "The Pasture" features cast bronze cows in Toronto's financial district I wanted to remind stockbrokers what real stock is.

Cast, Features, Past, Real, Stockbrokers, Work

When one makes sculptures of horses, one remembers all of that great relationship that humans had with them. . . . . Even today one raises horses only for dressage, the races, for the pleasure of horseback riding. It has become an animal of romance, an animal of pleasure which has lost its utility in the West.

Animal, Horse, Race, Romance, Utility

But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization.

Characterization, Clay, Gave, Looks, Portraiture

Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.

Artist, Increased, Money, Percent, Value, Years

I thought, 'Well, I'll amuse people a little bit. ' During lunch hour, while everyone was off to the faculty club and this and that, I set up a bunch of bases down the hallway of the school and I put all of the portraits I had completed. . . and I waited for the reaction. . . . that's how I got started again, doing portraits of people around me.

Club, Completed, Fun, Lunch, School, Waited

When I was making a shift. . . from one thing to another I didn't want to be answering questions: 'How come you're doing this?' 'How come you're doing that?' so I didn't allow anyone in my studio and I just worked away in there.

Answering, Answering Questions, Away, Studios, Thing, Want

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