1944-2013. 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.”
Forever Blue 1994 by George Rodrigue 20 x 24 inches Oil on linen Location: New Orleans By the late 1960s, the famous above-ground tombs and cemeteries of Louisiana had become a common subject matter in George Rodrigue’s art. As he began to incorporate the Cajun people into his landscapes, Rodrigue […]
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.
