Bon premier week-end de printemps
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Happy Saint Joseph's day.
Happy Saint Joseph's day. This is a detail from one of my Creole Kitchen paintings showing a copy of a Spanish 18th century oil painting of Saint Joseph and the Christ child.
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Colorful Creoles, The lifestyle & legacy of New Orleans Free people of color. Part 1 getting the Musée ready.
My Creole Folk art paintings are displayed above a 18th century French Louis XVI bergere in the time worn walls and woodwork of the 200 year old Creole cottage.
Last Nov I had a one day art show at the Musée Rosette Rochon. The title of the show was "Colorful Creoles, The lifestyle & legacy of New Orleans Free people of color". The paintings in the exhibition focus around 18th and 19th century New Orleans "Free people of color" and there rich lifestyle and legacy they have left on New Orleans and Louisiana. The exhibit was held in my good friend Don Richmond's museum, The Musée Rosette Rochon 1515 Pauger street New Orleans LA, 70116, located right outside of the French Quarter. The Musée Rosette Rochon is a House Museum Honoring the Accomplishments of Free People of Color. It is an 200 year old early antebellum Creole Cottage built for Rosette Rochon, a free businesswoman of color who amassed wealth and lived to about the age of one hundred.
The Musée Rosette Rochon is a work in progress and is projected to be a major historic house museum once restoration is finish on the house it will be a vital educational center for the Marigny and adjacent French Quarter, Tremé, and Bywater neighborhoods. The house also has many remarkable details, being one of the most important early examples in New Orleans of architectural transition between Creole and American Federal styles. A few months before my one day show I cleaned and prepared the Musée for the show. During the time I tuck most of these photo's of the elegant decay of the 200 year old house mixed with my paintings. The Musée is a typical single story structure of brick between post construction.
The front room of the Creole Cottage
The front room of the Creole Cottage
A 18th century Louis XVI oval back fauteuil next to a early 19th century cypress transom
My Creole Folk art paintings are displayed above a 18th century French Louis XVI bergere in the time worn walls and woodwork of the 200 year old Creole cottage.
My art displayed well with the original 200 year old brick between post construction of the house.
Southern Louisiana Creole Carved Walnut Armoire, 18th c.
The Cottage has 3 of it's original Creole style wrap-around mantels
A 19th c Louisiana cypress table used for serving drinks at the show.
The front room of the cottage.
A collection of 18th & 19th century candlesticks on a Creole mantel in 2th room.
The Cottage has 3 of it's original Creole style wrap-around mantels
My art displayed well with the original 200 year old brick between post construction of the house.
Southern Louisiana Creole Carved Walnut Armoire, 18th c.
My art displayed well with the original 200 year old brick between post construction of the house.
The Cottage has 3 of it's original Creole style wrap-around mantels
Creole table decorations of french cut greenery and local citrus add color.
Shrimp mold a favorite Louisiana dish.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Melchior-Paul von Deschwanden (Swiss, 1811 – 1881) The Study of a Young Man (Studie eines jungen Mannes), 1829/1881
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Melchior-Paul von Deschwanden (Swiss, 1811 – 1881) The Study of a Young Man (Studie eines jungen Mannes), 1829/1881
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Happy Saint Patrick's day from le château de Hopkins
Happy Saint Patrick's day from le château de Hopkins
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Artist Andrew LaMar Hopkins
Andrew LaMar Hopkins
BY LEE CUTRONE
THOM BENNETT PHOTOGRAPH
An avowed Francophile and person of Creole descent, artist Andrew LaMar Hopkins is passionate about France and its cultural influence in Louisiana. Over the past 17 years, he has visited Paris 30 times and created 300 works depicting historic New Orleans residences and their inhabitants. “I went to Paris the first time when I was 20,” says Hopkins, whose family moved from Mobile, Alabama, to New Orleans during his teens. “I felt like [France] is where I should have been born.”
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Hopkins’ affinity for all things French began in childhood. As a boy he used clay to create accurate miniatures of 18th- and 19th-century antiques and later expanded his miniature-métier to include complete rooms, featuring details such as cornice moldings and marbleized mantels. Today, he paints 18th and 19th century interiors and people and describes his work as “historical folk outsider art.” His period subject matter and simple, non-dimensional renderings of people are reminiscent of the Early American Primitive School of portrait painters, a comparison he welcomes as an admirer of renowned painters Joshua Johnson and Julien Hudson (both of mixed race heritage like Hopkins himself). “As I began to paint, people told me my style was Naïve,” recalls the self-taught artist, who juxtaposes his Naïve human forms with meticulously replicated decorative elements and vivid colors true to the fashions of the time.
Five years ago, Hopkins found that his historic tableaus intersected his own life. “I discovered I was kin to a major Creole family whose French ancestors came from Tours, France, in 1710,” he says. On his paternal side, he is a direct descendent of Nicolas Baudin, who obtained a land grant in 1710 for an island south of Mobile, which he named Mon Louis after his hometown of Mont Louis, France. As a descendent of Baudin, he also is related to several French governors of Louisiana.
Hopkins’ paintings often include famous Creoles of New Orleans such as John James Audubon and Marie Laveau and are displayed in such well-known local establishments as Dooky Chase’s Restaurant and Lucullus. New works are for sale at Nadine Blake and Rue Royale Gallery. He also works by commission. Current commissions include an 1855 Creole townhouse in Treme (built for Louise Vitry, a free woman of color) and the Jacques Dupré house, a historic plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish.
Five years ago, Hopkins found that his historic tableaus intersected his own life. “I discovered I was kin to a major Creole family whose French ancestors came from Tours, France, in 1710,” he says. On his paternal side, he is a direct descendent of Nicolas Baudin, who obtained a land grant in 1710 for an island south of Mobile, which he named Mon Louis after his hometown of Mont Louis, France. As a descendent of Baudin, he also is related to several French governors of Louisiana.
Hopkins’ paintings often include famous Creoles of New Orleans such as John James Audubon and Marie Laveau and are displayed in such well-known local establishments as Dooky Chase’s Restaurant and Lucullus. New works are for sale at Nadine Blake and Rue Royale Gallery. He also works by commission. Current commissions include an 1855 Creole townhouse in Treme (built for Louise Vitry, a free woman of color) and the Jacques Dupré house, a historic plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish.
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Sunday, November 23, 2014
MISS BETZY PICKING ROSES ; LITTLE BOY HOLDING A BIRD'S NEST 1770 by FRANÇOIS HUBERT DROUAIS
MISS BETZY PICKING ROSES ; LITTLE BOY HOLDING A BIRD'S NEST 1770 by FRANÇOIS HUBERT DROUAIS
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