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Between 2002 and 2003, George Rodrigue painted seventy swirling Hurricanes<\/i><\/a>, most on round canvases, creating a series that, as he explained, \u201cI have to paint until it\u2019s out of my system.\u201d \u00a0Now, for the first time since his passing in 2013, a selection of George Rodrigue\u2019s exceptional abstract series, Hurricanes<\/i>, is available for sale, including his very first painting from the series…. Lili<\/i> <\/a>(2002), as part of the special 2018 exhibition, Rodrigue\u2019s Swirling Vision: \u00a0The Cosmos, Sun, and Hurricanes<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had forgotten what these hurricanes do. \u00a0I just really felt\u2026this energy and\u2026all of what happened to us during these hurricanes. \u00a0So, I decided that I\u2019m going to paint hurricanes — I\u2019m going to paint the feeling of a hurricane. \u00a0I\u2019m going to paint all the emotion\u2026and do it in an abstract way\u2026like, things are torn up and it\u2019s a little like a radar screen. \u00a0It\u2019s a little like things getting beat up. And, it\u2019s very colorful.\u201d<\/i> \u2013 George Rodrigue (read more below)<\/p>\n

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View All Available Hurricane<\/em> Paintings Here<\/a><\/p>\n

It was in 2002 that Rodrigue witnessed Hurricane Lili in Lafayette, Louisiana. He watched as a colossal 150-year old oak tree fell in his front yard. \u00a0Two weeks later, Isidore tore through the same area, also visible during the day. \u00a0Viewing firsthand the energy and power of these storms affected Rodrigue in a way he had never experienced.<\/p>\n

Suddenly the swirl, a signature motif that had appeared throughout his work, took on a new significance, telling a story of its own. \u00a0The spiraling vortex that once enlivened his Landscapes and Blue Dog paintings grew to encompass the entire canvas as its sole subject. Rodrigue\u2019s Hurricanes<\/i><\/a>, however, are not a complete departure from his signature imagery. Within them exists traces of what came before– a river, an oak tree, the distinct eyes of a dog\u2014 in the same way life continues, yet changed, following an actual storm.<\/p>\n

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Rodrigue\u2019s Hurricanes<\/i><\/a> pre-date Hurricane Katrina, and many people, in hindsight, have seen the series as a prophecy. Yet when Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, Rodrigue did not paint the storm. \u00a0He instead turned his energy to relief efforts, establishing Blue Dog Relief (now the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts), raising millions of dollars for humanitarian and arts-related causes through sales of now-famous prints such as We Will Rise Again<\/i> and We Are Marching Again<\/i>. \u00a0Years later, when he revisited a similar Hurricanes<\/i> <\/a>style of colorful, swirling designs on round canvases, he called the series Pop Candy<\/i>, dropping the hurricane reference completely.<\/p>\n

Learn more by visiting Wendy Rodrigue’s Life and Legacy page here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Between 2002 and 2003, George Rodrigue painted seventy swirling Hurricanes, most on round canvases, creating a series that, as he explained, \u201cI have to paint until it\u2019s out of my system.\u201d \u00a0Now, for the first time since his passing in 2013, a selection of George Rodrigue\u2019s exceptional abstract series, Hurricanes, is available for sale, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13529","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHurricane Series - George Rodrigue Studios<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/hurricane-series\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hurricane Series - 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