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Wendy Rodrigue Interview - "The Other Half" RodrigueStudio 324 views Wendy Rodrigue, author and creator of the blog "Musings of an Artist's Wife" discusses her marriage in a segment titled "The Other Half" Credit WAFB Channel 9 Baton Rouge,...
Starting a Foundation.mov RodrigueStudio 981 views The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts is a non-profit organization dedicated to youth development through the arts. GRFA programs include an annual scholarship art con...
LSU Museum of Art - Blue Dogs and Cajuns on the River RodrigueStudio 600 views Blue Dogs and Cajuns on the River July 23 - September 18, 2011 Organized in part by the New Orleans Museum of Art Blue Dogs and Cajuns on the River features over fifty o...
WWL-TV interview with Jacques Rodrigue on Blue Dog Exhibit at LSU RodrigueStudio 458 views Jacques Rodrigue discusses the upcoming exhibit "Blue Dogs and Cajuns on the River" at the LSU Museum of Art. To commemorate the print and to benefit arts and education in...
George and Jacques Rodrigue Discuss LSU Campaign for Arts and Education RodrigueStudio 368 views George and Jacques Rodrigue discuss the new LSU print "A Number One Tiger Fan" which benefits George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts, LSU Museum of Art and LSU Tiger Athlet...
Jolie's Louisiana Bistro Featured on "Eat Local" News Segment RodrigueStudio 970 views News clip featuring Jolie's Louisiana Bistro in Lafayette, LA in "Eating Local" segment. Interviews with Steve Santillo, owner of Jolie's and Blue Dog Cafe, Chef Manny Aug...
Blue Dog iPad App RodrigueStudio 1,374 views Get a sneak peak of a demo of a near final version of "You Can Count on Blue Dog" for iPad by George Rodrigue created by our friends at the AIE school in Australia. A fi...
Jacques Rodrigue and Chef Matt Murphy TV Interview WVUE FOX 8 RodrigueStudio 1,065 views TV interview with Jacques Rodrigue, George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts, and Chef Matt Murphy from M Bistro at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in New Orleans. The Ritz-Carlton is...
Blue Dog Paintings Stolen from George Rodrigue Gallery RodrigueStudio 1,517 views Collection of news clips detailing the heist and recovery of two Blue Dog paintings stolen from Rodrigue Studio at 730 Royal Street in the New Orleans French Quarter. The ...
Blue Dog artist George Rodrigue visits Bissonet Elementary RodrigueStudio 2,052 views Blue Dog Artist George Rodrigue visits Bissonet Elementary in Metairie, LA for an art demonstration and lecture. The event was sponsored by the George Rodrigue Foundation ...

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Welcome to the official You Tube site of Louisiana artist George Rodrigue. Click on videos to learn more about the artist, see painting demonstrations, lectures and much more!

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George Rodrigue
George Rodrigue (b. 1944) was born and raised in New Iberia, Louisiana, the heart of Cajun country. For forty years, his work has remained rooted in the familiar milieu of home.

During the mid-1960s Rodrigue attended the Art Center Colege of Design in Los Angeles, where the graduate school 's curriculum provided him a nuts-and-bolts foundation in drawing and painting. Outside of art school, L.A. was full of Pop and Abstract influences, and it was an exciting time for a young artist in America. However, much like today, critical success depended on one's New York visibility. Nevertheless, Rodrigue returned to Louisiana. He would use its symbols not only to capture the essense of his personal world, but also to express his spiritual and cultural ideas as they pertained to Louisiana, to the South, and to America. Rodrigue decided that he would not be a Louisiana artist in New York City; instead he would return home with his new knowledge and give meaning to a new phrase: Cajun Artist.

The Blue Dog
It was a myth, the loup-garou, which inspired another Rodrigue series, the Blue Dog. Painted for a book of Cajun ghost stories called Bayou (Inkwell, 1984), this werewolf-type dog was an already familiar legend for Rodrigue, who heard the story often as a boy. With no image for the loup-garou, the artist searched his vast photo files for a suitable shape. He found this in photos of his studio dog Tiffany who had died several years before. Rodrigue used her stance and manipulated her shape to meet his needs for the painting. Under a blue night sky he painted the image a pale grey-blue and gave it red eyes. He liked what he saw and added this image to his pictorial list of favorite Cajun legends, painting it in cemetery and bayou scenes intermittently over the next five or six years. He switched the dog's eyes to yellow, creating a friendlier image, and he soon realized that the Blue Dog could take him anywhere on the canvas — even out of Cajun country. He explored his earlier Pop and abstract interests in a more obvious way, breaking his canvas into strong shapes just as he always had with the oak trees and Cajuns, with the addition of bold blocks of color and a new signature-type shape in the mix. The dog became bluer and the paintings more abstract, reflecting Rodrigue's current feelings about life, once again using an image that he knows and loves best. Today Rodrigue describes himself as an abstract artist who happens to paint things we recognize. Oftentimes the actual subjects within his paintings are secondary to his focus on shape, design and color.

Rodrigue Studio, featuring the art of Louisiana artist George Rodrigue, has gallery locations in New Orleans, LA, Lafayette, LA, Carmel, CA.