Lucía Laurent - XL - Corona de Primavera

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Lucía Laurent - XL - Corona de Primavera

Lucía Lauren (LILI) is a Cuban artist with a primarily self-taught training in the plastic arts, 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 special sensitivity to composition, visual balance, gesture, and the representation of the human figure. Subsequently, she spent several years exploring 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. Ultimately she found in the plastic arts a space of broader expression. Painting allowed her to bring together those previous experiences and transform them into an intimate and recognizable universe, built mainly through acrylic on canvas. Lucía Lauren’s work revolves especially around women, nature, flowers, and animals, with a recurring presence of the cat as a silent companion to her protagonists. These 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 retain only what she considers essential. Serene faces, large areas of color, defined outlines, and flat shapes build instantly legible images, yet they are filled with sensitivity. In her language we find echoes of contemporary illustration and naive 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, 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 virtually her entire pictorial universe. She does not appear as a heroic or distant character, but rather from a tranquil, elegant, and introspective femininity. They are figures with serene gazes, slow 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 nearly merge, 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 to the point of erasing the boundary between figure and nature. In this way, woman, nature, and the animal world end up forming a single 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 print and become the main compositional resource: they surround both characters and focus the entire scene on the embrace. The result conveys protection, intimacy, and silence. In other pieces, such as the woman seated with 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, beiges, and blue-green, creating a sophisticated image without seeming cold. The protagonist performs no concrete action; she simply exists within her space. Precisely that absence of drama 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 rely 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. In it appear everyday beauty, the relationship with animals, care, contemplation, and nature as refuge. Her paintings possess a particularly appealing quality: they can seem decorative at first glance, but behind that beauty lies a constant search for harmony, sensitivity, and serenity. In a contemporary landscape where many images seek to attract 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 via United Parcel Service (UPS) for Spain and Europe, and via Fedex for the rest of the world. The work will be rolled and protected by several layers of packaging, bubble wrap, and placed in a sturdy tube. Once the work is paid for, three days are required for the packing process and delivery to the shipping company. The piece will reach you within ten days, depending on the destination country. “This lot contains visualizations produced with AI. Please consult the original photographs to verify the real state of the work.” This delicate acrylic painting on canvas is framed within contemporary figurative illustration and neofolk art, standing out for its atmosphere of introspection and harmony with nature. The work presents a portrait in three-quarter view of a profile-facing woman, with closed eyes and an expression of peaceful serenity, whose gathered hair is adorned with a headdress of bright flowers in orange, yellow, and pink tones alongside stylized foliage. On her shoulders rest two symmetrical bright-yellow canaries with clean lines, while she wears a dark garment with fine geometric embroidery that subtly contrasts with the navy blue background. The use of saturated flat colors, softened outlines, and precisely distributed botanical details gives the piece a poetic, serene, and highly elegant charm.

Estimate:£510.12

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