{"id":15133,"date":"2021-12-09T16:27:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T22:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/?p=15133"},"modified":"2021-12-09T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T22:39:07","slug":"new-silkscreen-release-heart-and-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/new-silkscreen-release-heart-and-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW SILKSCREEN RELEASE: HEART AND SOUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Heart and Soul<\/em>, designed in 2012 by George Rodrigue, is a newly released print in 2021. This Estate Edition of 150 measures 24 x 18 inches and is available for purchase from <a href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/galleries\/\">Rodrigue Studios<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/product\/heart-and-soul\/\">online<\/a>. Note: This silkscreen is &#8220;full bleed&#8221; meaning the image and paper size are the same.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/product\/heart-and-soul\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15135 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Heart-and-Soul-no-border-web-1-770x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Heart-and-Soul-no-border-web-1-770x1024.jpg 770w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Heart-and-Soul-no-border-web-1-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Heart-and-Soul-no-border-web-1-768x1021.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Heart-and-Soul-no-border-web-1-1156x1536.jpg 1156w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Heart-and-Soul-no-border-web-1-1541x2048.jpg 1541w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Heart-and-Soul-no-border-web-1-600x797.jpg 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Heart-and-Soul-no-border-web-1.jpg 1881w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the years, George Rodrigue found himself frequently using some of the same motifs in his paintings and silkscreens.\u00a0 Flowers, hearts, swirls, eyes, candles\u2026.all were recurring designs found throughout his work, which changed in style and meaning over his three-decade career.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2012, Rodrigue found himself in Houston for several months, faced with misdiagnoses and conflicting reports on his illness; by the fall, he was back home with the encouraging news that his cancer had entered remission.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m recycling my life,\u201d noted Rodrigue, and his paintings reflected it.\u00a0 These canvases from 2012 were packed with symbolism and optimism.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/product\/heart-and-soul\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15136\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GR-with-Heart-and-Soul-2012.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GR-with-Heart-and-Soul-2012.jpeg 978w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GR-with-Heart-and-Soul-2012-300x294.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GR-with-Heart-and-Soul-2012-768x754.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GR-with-Heart-and-Soul-2012-600x589.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For Rodrigue, flowers clearly represented a rebirth, but it was also a design element he simply found appealing; often referring to them as \u201ceyes with petals\u201d.\u00a0 While his early Cajun works were limited to use of flowers in the hands or basket of Jolie Blonde or Evangeline, his later works from the Blue Dog series used this element as a focal point.<\/p>\n<p>In <i class=\"\">Heart and Soul<\/i>, he combined his love of color with these strong images of pink flowers on a striking yellow background, surrounding the full image of the Blue Dog.\u00a0 Reflecting the artist\u2019s tender and romantic side, he placed a heart with a flower in the center of the Blue Dog, applying an exceptionally suitable title.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><i class=\"\"><span class=\"\">*Price and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">availability subject to change without notice<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heart and Soul, designed in 2012 by George Rodrigue, is a newly released print in 2021. This Estate Edition of 150 measures 24 x 18 inches and is available for purchase from Rodrigue Studios or online. Note: This silkscreen is &#8220;full bleed&#8221; meaning the image and paper size are the same. Over the years, George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":15135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-img","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NEW SILKSCREEN RELEASE: HEART AND SOUL - 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\/new-silkscreen-release-heart-and-soul\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NEW SILKSCREEN RELEASE: HEART AND SOUL - George Rodrigue Studios\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Heart and Soul, designed in 2012 by George Rodrigue, is a newly released print in 2021. 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