Rance hood biography samples

Hood had introduced some abstract motifs into his backgrounds, but he adhered mainly to the traditional style of art practiced by his ancestors. His paintings feature warriors on horseback galloping so energetically that their hooves never touch the ground. His art flows with the expression of energy, magic, life, and authentic freedom. Retrieved 12 October Oklahoma Native Artists.

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Warriors on Horseback. The Peyote Road. After the peyote meeting Mountain View. Hoods Individual Style. When my grandfather passed away he handed me down the medicine. I sleep in a room full of it, and I pray a lot. Every morning and every evening, in the medicine ways. A lot of times I get visions when I'm sleeping. They're not a dream. They're different.

When I work around medicine I'll get a vision or a title and I'll see the scene and paint it. Warrior horses are my statement.

Rance hood biography samples

The "War Pony", when you ride him, he knows you and you know him and he's not going to default on you, he's not going to back out. Like I've had some friends in a bar fight who've backed out. If I had "War Pony" in there with me, he wouldn't back out. He'd die with me. They're the ones who originated the Appaloosa horses. Sometimes the dots on an Appie are blue, sometimes they're gray, so I started doing that, without marking them first.

I just knew where the spots were going to be. I'm a horse person. We put a Comanche saddle on him. It's called a "woman's saddle". The warriors would put the women on them when they were pregnant, so they'd have something to hang onto. The men didn't hang onto nothing but the mane.