{"id":6084,"date":"2017-01-03T14:05:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/?p=6084"},"modified":"2017-02-21T11:47:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:47:50","slug":"happy-mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/happy-mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"RODRIGUE: Happy Mardi Gras!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6101\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MardiGras96-231x300.png\" alt=\"mardigras96\" width=\"200\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MardiGras96-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MardiGras96-600x780.png 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MardiGras96-624x811.png 624w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MardiGras96.png 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rodrigue Studio<br \/>\n730 Royal Street<br \/>\nNew Orleans, LA<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>View this historic collection of original paintings and \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/art\/happy-mardi-gras-prints\/\">silkscreens<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0by George Rodrigue, spanning 40 years of carnival traditions, during this Mardi Gras season. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">On view now through March 19.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6097 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/king-george-and-queen-300x261.png\" alt=\"king-george-and-queen\" width=\"249\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/king-george-and-queen-300x261.png 300w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/king-george-and-queen-600x521.png 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/king-george-and-queen-624x542.png 624w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/king-george-and-queen.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>George Rodrigue grew up celebrating the tradition of Mardi Gras.<\/strong> As a child in New Iberia, Rodrigue\u2019s mother dressed him in costume for the parades and \u201dCarnival Balls,\u201d where he and his cousin Arlene entered together, and often won, the costume competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Rodrigue painted the Mardi Gras mythology beginning in the early 1970s.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He focused on the carnival traditions in small-town Acadiana, showing a Cajun interpretation of the \u2018big city\u2019 celebration.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He often incorporated the official Mardi Gras colors of purple (justice), gold (power), and green (faith), selected in 1872 by Rex, one of the oldest New Orleans Mardi Gras krewes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6105\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/King-with-Tiffany-300x217.png\" alt=\"king-with-tiffany\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/King-with-Tiffany-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/King-with-Tiffany-600x434.png 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/King-with-Tiffany-624x451.png 624w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/King-with-Tiffany.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>By the mid-1970s, Rodrigue, now living in Lafayette, declared himself King of Mardi Gras.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He built a platform in his yard at 1206 Jefferson Street, where, dressed in full regalia, he and his dog Tiffany (the original model for the Blue Dog), greeted the passing parades. What began as a small social occasion grew quickly into a large annual party of more than 500 people gathered on Mardi Gras Day.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Artist-King George tossed custom-designed doubloons adorned with his iconic oak tree, or with images of Longfellow\u2019s Evangeline and Gabriel &#8212;poetic symbols of the Acadian Saga.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Each year he designed a one-of-a-kind solid gold doubloon, which he wore as a medallion complementing his royal attire (samples seen in a nearby case).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Guests arrived in costume and enjoyed gumbo, jambalaya, and a <i>Cochon de Lait<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s2\"> (roast pig) <\/span><span class=\"s1\">as they watched the parades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6110 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/kingmarion-300x248.png\" alt=\"kingmarion\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/kingmarion-300x248.png 300w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/kingmarion-600x495.png 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/kingmarion-624x515.png 624w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/kingmarion.png 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Rodrigue painted dozens of versions of Mardi Gras throughout his lifetime, reinterpreting many of his designs as commemorative posters.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Oftentimes he posed his friends, dressing them in elaborate costumes, such as with <i>King Marion<\/i> (1985), honoring Marion Edwards as King of the Washington Mardi Gras, along with Louisiana favorites Chef John Folse and P.J. Latour posed as Lieutenants.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In <i>A Toast to Broadway<\/i>, also from 1985, Rodrigue saw his most popular Mardi Gras poster to date. According to the artist, the composition, created for the Southwest Louisiana Mardi Gras Association, \u201cturned out to be very successful when the local people preferred it to my regular Cajun paintings because of the bright colors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2393 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mardigras20101-300x247.png\" alt=\"mardigras2010\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mardigras20101-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mardigras20101-600x495.png 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mardigras20101-624x515.png 624w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mardigras20101.png 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It was within the Blue Dog Series, however, that Rodrigue explored fervently the Mardi Gras theme.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>His palette grew increasingly vivid, at times near-neon, and his contemporary compositions lent themselves to designs integrating the Mardi Gras flag, masks, and beads not as secondary elements, but as important shapes, key to his bold artistic statements.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This is especially true of his original silkscreen designs, created near-annually between 1992 and 2013.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Blue Dog Series Mardi Gras editions highlight Rodrigue\u2019s development within printmaking.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6103 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P1020578-copy-225x300.png\" alt=\"p1020578-copy\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P1020578-copy-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P1020578-copy-600x800.png 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P1020578-copy-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P1020578-copy-730x973.png 730w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P1020578-copy-624x832.png 624w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P1020578-copy.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><i><\/i>Eventually Rodrigue expanded to a six-color dog, and finally, once the computer became part of his process, to infinite colors and increasingly complex designs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He also experimented with metallic papers and mixed media within his Mardi Gras editions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cRight after Christmas, which is mostly white lights and silver bells, Mardi\u00a0<\/i><\/span><i>Gras season arrives full force, interrupting winter with a burst of color.\u00a0<\/i><i>These hues come from the thousands of different costumes, masks, flags,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>floats, beads, and doubloons, all of which swirl around the three primary\u00a0<\/i><i>colors of purple, green and gold.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u2014 G.R.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodrigue Studio 730 Royal Street New Orleans, LA View this historic collection of original paintings and \u00a0silkscreens\u00a0 \u00a0by George Rodrigue, spanning 40 years of carnival traditions, during this Mardi Gras season. On view now through March 19. &nbsp; George Rodrigue grew up celebrating the tradition of Mardi Gras. 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