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She Brought Me Spring, 1997 and 2002, oil on canvas, 24×36 inches<\/p><\/div>\n

According to local legend, in the 1920s a Cajun imprisoned in Port Arthur, Texas, pined for his lost love, his beautiful \u201cJolie Blond,\u201d and wrote a waltz from those feelings of longing. Over the years the song became for many the Cajun anthem based on a sort of modern-day Evangeline. On the internet there are more credible versions of the history of this song, but for Rodrigue\u2019s Jolie Blonde, a subject he returned to many times over forty years, what matters is the romantic myth of this convict who wrote a waltz for the woman he loved, a faceless Cajun beauty waiting for an image.<\/p>\n

Rodrigue\u2019s Jolie Blonde paintings, like his Evangelines, could fill a museum exhibition. He photographed dozens of models and painted hundreds of versions. In the painting She Brought Me Spring<\/em>, Rodrigue suggests that he himself is the Blue Dog, presented a new life by Jolie Blonde, modeled here by his wife Wendy just after they married in 1997.<\/p>\n

Rodrigue began the painting in acrylic but grew frustrated with the fast-drying paint. \u201cA woman\u2019s face must be soft,\u201d he explained. \u201cA build-up of acrylic paint is too harsh.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result, he began work on a new canvas, this time with oil, a medium he reluctantly gave up several years before following a warning from his doctor. After a week or more of work, however, he grew dizzy and, fearing the health risks, abandoned the painting.<\/p>\n

In the early 2000s, Rodrigue discovered water-based oil paints. He used these for a series of nude figurative paintings called Bodies. At the same time, he returned to the painting She Brought Me Spring and finished this contemporary Jolie Blonde work.<\/p>\n

Read more about Rodrigue and Jolie Blonde here: http:\/\/www.wendyrodrigue.com\/2009\/12\/jolie-blonde.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  According to local legend, in the 1920s a Cajun imprisoned in Port Arthur, Texas, pined for his lost love, his beautiful \u201cJolie Blond,\u201d and wrote a waltz from those feelings of longing. Over the years the song became for many the Cajun anthem based on a sort of modern-day Evangeline. 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