Born and raised in southwest Louisiana, “Cajun Country,” George Rodrigue preserved on his canvas what he feared was his dying heritage — including its land, people, traditions and mythology. It was a Cajun legend, the loup-garou, that spawned his most famous series,
“I grew up feeling a strong relationship to the old things, to the old culture, and I got a stronger feeling when I went to Los Angeles to school. I really started to understand how different I was and how different my Louisiana was.”
I’ve always approached painting knowing that my job is not to make an accurate representation of a subject–
IT’S GOT TO TRANSCEND THAT.
What an incredible opening weekend! Everyone’s talking about George Rodrigue at the Ohr O’Keefe Museum of Art! Don’t miss Rodrigue’s Blue Dog: Discovering Late Works on Canvas and Metal, on view this summer (2018) in Frank Gehry’s architectural jewel on the beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast! A Gallery Talk by the artist’s […]
