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Article: CARVING A NEW LIFE GRANDSON FOLLOWS LEAD OF SCULPTOR PATROCINIO BARELA.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- August 25, 1999
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Byline: Mary Voelz Chandler News Staff Writer
Just as a writer finds the flesh for characters in the back of his mind, the sculptor must lure a form out of the piece of stone or wood before him. The artist flies blind, in a way, knowing only that his prey is trapped inside.
In the work of Patrocinio Barela, an unlettered, untutored woodcarver who died in 1964 in Taos, that meant discovering the suggestion of movement and curve in simple pieces of cedar. Some figures in Barela's enormous legacy of work were saints, some family groups, some nearly abstract cubist forms. Some he sold, many he traded for wine.
That same impulse to unlock what is ...