Lucía Laurent - XL - La Dama del Kimono Geométrico

Lucía Lauren (LILI) is a Cuban artist with essentially self-taught formal training in the plastic arts, and she holds a degree in Social Communication from the University of Havana. Her relationship with images began long before she dedicated herself professionally to painting. Photography was her first creative territory: through it she developed a special 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 phase for understanding the importance that line, silhouette, simplification of forms, and graphic clarity acquire in her current painting. Finally she found in the plastic arts a much broader space for expression. Painting allowed her to bring together those earlier experiences and transform them into an intimate and recognizable universe, built mainly through acrylic on canvas. Lucía Lauren’s work centers especially around women, nature, flowers, and animals, with a recurring presence of the cat as a silent companion of her protagonists. They are scenes that rarely seek to narrate extraordinary events. On the contrary, the artist seems to be 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 begins 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 charged 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 sensitivity, 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, intense reds, and very clean whites. In some compositions the palette is delicate and almost domestic; in others, the chromatic contrast takes on a clearly graphic intensity. The woman occupies the center of almost her entire pictorial universe. She is not portrayed as a heroic or distant figure, but from a tranquil, elegant, and introspective femininity. They are figures with serene gazes, measured poses, and restrained gestures. There is glamour, but it is intimate and silent 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 shapes of the cat almost fuse, turning the composition into a representation of affection. Flowers and vegetation serve a similar function. They surround the protagonists, appear on their dresses, or are integrated into the backgrounds to the point of blurring the boundary between figure and nature. 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 build the image through the contrast between black, white, and red. The stripes of the dress cease to be merely a pattern and become the main compositional resource: 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 wine glass, the artist develops a composition closer to contemporary design. The terracotta of the dress dialogues with soft pinks, beiges, and blue-greens, creating a sophisticated image without feeling cold. The protagonist does not perform any concrete action; she simply exists within her space. It is precisely that absence of drama that 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 it reveals its essential emotion. Her universe is feminine, botanical, domestic, and affectionate. It features everyday beauty, relationships with animals, care, contemplation, and nature as a refuge. Her paintings possess a particularly attractive quality: they can 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 created in the acrylic on high-quality professional canvas technique. Dimension of 90 x 120 cm of painting. Original edition. The shipment will be carried out through the United Parcel Service (UPS) for Spain and Europe, and through FedEx for the rest of the world. The work will be rolled and will be protected with several layers of packaging, 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 after ten days, depending on the destination country. “This lot contains AI-generated visualizations. Check the original photographs to verify the actual condition of the work.” This sophisticated work in acrylic on canvas delves into contemporary figurative portraiture with a marked Pop illustration aesthetic and currents of modern graphic art. The female figure, with a serene and frontal gaze adorned with prominent golden earrings, wears a kimono composed of patches of geometric bright flat colors. At her feet rests a calm black-and-white cat, adding a note of domestic warmth and intimacy to the scene. The composition is enriched with a stylized botanical and ceramic environment in the background, resolved through a harmonious palette of pastel tones — sky blues, soft pinks, greens, and terracottas — with clean contours that give the whole an atmosphere of balance, aesthetic elegance, and modern refinement.

Stima:€500

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