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All auctions / Contemporary Art / Lucía Laurent - XL - Elegancia entre Magnolias
Lucía Lauren (LILI) is a Cuban artist with a primarily self-taught visual training, who graduated in Social Communication from the University of Havana. Her relationship with the image began long before she dedicated herself professionally to painting. Photography was her first creative territory: through it she developed a particular sensitivity to composition, visual balance, gesture, and the representation of the human figure. Subsequently, she spent several years in the world of tattooing, a decisive stage for understanding the importance that line, silhouette, simplification of forms, and graphic clarity acquire in her current painting. She ultimately found in the plastic arts a much wider space for expression. Painting allowed her to fuse those previous experiences and transform them into an intimate and recognizable universe, constructed mainly with acrylic on canvas. Lucía Lauren’s work revolves especially around women, nature, flowers, and animals, with a recurring presence of the cat as the silent companion of her protagonists. They are scenes that rarely seek to narrate extraordinary events. On the contrary, the artist seems interested in small moments of calm: a woman holding her cat, a figure surrounded by flowers, a glass of wine, an imagined garden, or simply a moment of contemplation. Her painting starts from a marked visual synthesis. Lucía eliminates much of the secondary information to preserve only what she considers essential. Serene faces, large areas of color, defined contours, and flat shapes build images that are immediately legible, yet laden with sensitivity. In her language we find echoes of contemporary illustration and naïve painting, along with decorative references close to Art Deco and Art Nouveau. However, these elements appear reinterpreted from a personal sensibility, warmer, more everyday and feminine. One of the most interesting aspects of her work is the use of color. Powder pinks, terracottas, ochres, mustards, and cream tones coexist with deep blacks, blue-green greens, strong reds, and very clean whites. In some compositions the palette is delicate and almost domestic; in others, chromatic contrast takes on a clearly graphic intensity. The woman occupies the center of almost her entire pictorial universe. She does not appear represented as a heroic or distant figure, but from a calm, elegant, introspective femininity. They are figures with serene gazes, slow poses, and restrained gestures. There is glamour, but it is an intimate and quiet glamour. Cats play a particularly interesting role. More than mere decorative elements, they act as symbols of companionship, independence, tenderness, and emotional refuge. In works where woman and animal embrace, the curves of the human body and the cat’s forms almost fuse, turning the composition into a representation of affection. Flowers and vegetation fulfill a similar function. They surround the protagonists, appear on their dresses, or blend into the backgrounds until the line between figure and nature sometimes disappears. In this way, woman, nature, and the animal world end up forming one sensibility. In works such as the figure embracing the cat on a red background, Lucía radically reduces the palette to construct the image through the contrast between black, white, and red. The stripes on the dress stop being merely a pattern and become the main compositional device: they surround both characters and focus the entire scene on the gesture of the embrace. The result conveys protection, intimacy, and silence. In other pieces, such as the woman sitting beside the cat and the glass of wine, the artist develops a composition closer to contemporary design. The terracotta of the dress dialogues with soft pinks, beige, and blue-green, creating a sophisticated image without feeling cold. The protagonist performs no specific action; she simply exists within her space. Precisely that absence of melodrama constitutes much of the charm of the work. Thus, Lucía Lauren develops a painting that appears simple but is carefully constructed. Her language does not depend on ostentatious technical virtuosity, but on the ability to reduce a scene until its essential emotion is found. Her universe is feminine, botanical, domestic, and affectionate. It features everyday beauty, the relationship with animals, care, contemplation, and nature as a refuge. Her paintings possess a particularly attractive quality: they may seem decorative at first glance, but behind that beauty there is a constant search for harmony, sensitivity, and serenity. In a contemporary landscape where many images seek to grab attention through excess, Lucía Lauren takes the opposite path: she simplifies. And it is precisely in that simplicity that much of the personality of her work resides. Artwork by the artist Lucía Laurent made in the technique Acrylic on high-quality professional canvas. Dimension of 90 x 120 cm of painting. Original edition. Shipping will be carried out through United Parcel Service (UPS) for Spain and Europe, and through FedEx for the rest of the world. The artwork will be shipped rolled and will be protected with multiple layers of packaging, poly bubble wrap, and placed in a sturdy tube. Once the work is paid for, three days are required for the packaging process and delivery to the shipping company. The piece will reach you within ten days, depending on the destination country. “This lot contains visualizations created with AI. Please consult the original photographs to verify the real condition of the work.” This acrylic on canvas work is a sophisticated neofigurative portrait inspired by Art Deco and contemporary fashion illustration. The scene features an elegant woman with a slender neckline, wearing a wide white bustled hat, dark sunglasses, and a black-and-white striped dress, subtly supporting her face as she gazes at the surroundings beside a black-and-white cat with a attentive green gaze. The composition is complemented by a vase of white magnolias in the foreground and a warm terracotta-ochre background that reveals a serene Mediterranean landscape in the distance. Through dark, fluid contour lines together with a reduced yet striking palette focused on the contrast of white and black over warm earth tones, the painting evokes an atmosphere of refined serenity, timeless glamour, and aesthetic distinction.
Estimate:$680.43
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