{"id":13632,"date":"2021-06-02T14:30:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T19:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/?p=13632"},"modified":"2021-06-02T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T19:32:42","slug":"new-painting-available-top-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/new-painting-available-top-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"New Painting Available: Top Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Dog head is the focal point of this simple, yet striking painting. \u00a0Rodrigue often said, \u201cyou can\u2019t take a Blue Dog from one painting and put it into another\u2026the colors won\u2019t work.\u201d \u00a0Painted in 1993, <em>Top Dog <\/em>is now viewed as a precursor to the paintings created during the last three years of Rodrigue\u2019s life, when he returned to these strong, contemporary images, allowing the image of the Blue Dog in large format to emphasize his interest in shape, color, design and contrast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/art\/available-paintings\/#gallery-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Top-Dog-1993-framed.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Top Dog<\/em><br \/>\n1993<br \/>\nAcrylic on canvas<br \/>\n24 x 30 inches<br \/>\nNewly available at Rodrigue Studios<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/galleries\/\">Contact us to learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Dog head is the focal point of this simple, yet striking painting. \u00a0Rodrigue often said, \u201cyou can\u2019t take a Blue Dog from one painting and put it into another\u2026the colors won\u2019t work.\u201d \u00a0Painted in 1993, Top Dog is now viewed as a precursor to the paintings created during the last three years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":13611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-art","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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