Jean Paul Langlois – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS
A number of latest work by Métis artist Jean Paul Langlois (beforehand featured right here). Recognized for utilizing ultra-saturated colors and popular culture motifs as a manner of grappling with a way of alienation from his personal cultural backgrounds — each indigenous and settler — Langlois’s newest work mark a slight shift away from his earlier give attention to storytelling and household historical past. As he shared with us:
“I’ve been centered extra on landscapes (I did a cross nation plein air portray tour final fall). Apparently sufficient, every kind of stuff comes up when portray landscapes, there’s content material and tales that I’m not even conscious of till I’m completed. Within the phrases of Richard Mayhew, ‘Panorama has no area, no id. It permits the portray to be about emotion.’”
Jean Paul Langlois is likely one of the 50 artists featured in our newest artwork e-book, Quiet. See extra photographs beneath and check out the book in our shop!
