Art

Outer

            While walking around New Orleans there is artwork almost everywhere you look.  You can notice artwork in the buildings architecture, the street corners, galleries, and pretty much everywhere.  While walking down Royal Street I stumbled into an art gallery.  I found an artist work that I really liked by the name of Eric Lepape.  I wasn’t able to take pictures of his work, but I was able to view it, and was able to read information about him.  I wouldn’t say this was my favorite art that I saw the whole trip, but it was for when I went to galleries.  I would say my favorite artwork I saw would have been in the St. Louis Cathedral.  When walking into the St. Louis Cathedral everywhere you looked was beautiful.  I especially liked the ceiling mural, the stained glass, and everything honestly.  I also really enjoyed just walking around and looking at all the artwork at Jackson Square.  There was artwork all over the fence, and I even talked to a few of the artist.  There was one piece of art I really liked, it was a painting of the Preservation Hall.  I made the mistake of taking a picture without permission, and the man made me delete it.  He was telling me he doesn’t allow pictures because he doesn’t want people making prints of his work.  I apologized to him and told him that I wouldn’t know how to do that if I wanted to.  I deleted the picture and continued talking to him.  I asked him how long he thinks he averages on each painting, and he told me probably around 5 hours, but it varies.  I found the artwork of this city to be some of the most beautiful I have seen.

Street art

Inner

            The artist I liked most on Royale Street was by a man of the name Eric Lepape.  I would say that the theme of most of his art that I saw had to do with boats, water, and many vibrant colors.  He seemed to be a fan of sticking to the colors red, blue, yellow, and white, but there were many different variations of those colors.  I think that his paintings seemed to have a calming feel to them, and this is probably because they included water.  What I liked most about them was the use of colors he used (blue and red are my favorite colors).  There was a plaque by his art and I jotted down a quote that he said which was, “Starting a canvas, I go on impulse.  I don’t like to control my thinking; I let my unconscious take over and allow a sense of freedom of magic to give way!”.  I really liked this quote, because whenever I draw I do the same thing.  I am not a good artist by any means, but I do enjoy drawing.  Whenever I draw something I have no clue where I am going with it, I usually just start with a line and go wherever it takes me.  I feel as if this is what he meant by his quote, even though a lot of his paintings there had similar themes.  I wish the artist were actually there so I could talk to him, but I enjoyed looking at his art.  (Just a side note I find it interesting that I couldn't take a picture of his art, but when I googled him I could find things that I am almost positive he painted.)

Eric Lepape