{"id":59391,"date":"2020-01-22T01:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T01:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59391"},"modified":"2020-01-22T01:19:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T01:19:59","slug":"a-painter-resurrects-louisianas-vanished-creole-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59391","title":{"rendered":"A Painter Resurrects Louisiana\u2019s Vanished Creole Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Painter Resurrects Louisiana\u2019s Vanished Creole Culture<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2020-01-16<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Pochoda<\/strong><\/a>, Editor-in-Chief
\nThe Magazine ANTIQUES<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nAndrew LaMar Hopkins<\/a> portrays the significant role Creoles played in the civic life of New Orleans<\/a>. \u201cEdmond D\u00e9d\u00e9<\/a> Piano Recital\u201d (2019) shows the freeborn Creole musician and composer in his elegant salon. Andrew LaMar Hopkins<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Andrew LaMar Hopkins<\/a> celebrates the rich contributions of 19th-Century New Orleans<\/a> in his folk art style (and drag).<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW ORLEANS<\/a> \u2014 Dressed as his alter ego, the modish matron D\u00e9sir\u00e9e Jos\u00e9phine Duplantier, the artist Andrew LaMar Hopkins<\/a> is a familiar presence on this city\u2019s arts scene. His paintings, faux na\u00eff<\/a> renderings of 19th-century life in the city \u2014 particularly the vanished culture of New Orleans\u2019s free Creoles of color<\/a> \u2014 also keep good company. You can see these works in Nadine Blake\u2019s gallery on Royal Street<\/a> in the French Quarter<\/a>, on the art-filled walls of Dooky Chase\u2019s Restaurant in Treme<\/a>, and in the rooms of collectors like the designer Thomas Jayne<\/a> and the food stylist Rick Ellis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When a dozen of Mr. Hopkins\u2019s paintings appear at the Winter Show<\/a> at the Park Avenue Armory<\/a> on Jan. 24 they will be making their first foray north. Placed alongside 18th- and 19th -century portrait miniatures in the booth of Elle Shushan<\/a> near the entrance of the show, these small works portraying daily life in New Orleans, circa 1830, will enact their own sly magic, inserting themselves into the stream of art history as if the visual record of people and places in antebellum<\/a> Creole culture had not been lost. \u201cThis is what these lives looked like, and no one else was doing it,\u201d Mr. Hopkins, 42, says of both white Creoles and Creoles of color in his work. \u201cI wanted to do them justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Creole is a long-embattled term, perhaps best defined now as a person whose background and identity is traceable to colonial French Louisiana<\/a> and\/or its Franco-African culture. William Rudolph<\/a>, the chief curator at the San Antonio Museum of Art<\/a> and an early enthusiast about the work of Mr. Hopkins, says this artist \u201chas used his work to interrogate Creole history.\u201d He added, \u201cHe has deconstructed the past.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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