Lucía Laurent - XL - Aura Art Déco

Lucía Lauren (LILI) is a Cuban artist with essentially self-taught formation in visual arts, graduated in Social Communication from the University of Havana.

Her relationship with the image began long before she professionally dedicated herself to painting. Photography constituted her first creative domain: through it she developed a specialized sensitivity toward composition, visual balance, gesture, and the representation of the human figure. Subsequently she delved for several years into the world of tattooing, a decisive stage for understanding the importance that the line, the silhouette, the simplification of forms, and graphic clarity acquire in her current painting.

Finally she found in the plastic arts a much wider space for expression. Painting allowed her to gather 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 of her protagonists. They 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 keep only what she considers essential. Serene faces, large areas of color, defined contours, and flat shapes build images that are immediately legible, yet filled with sensitivity.

In her language we find echoes of contemporary illustration and naïf 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, ochers, 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, chromatic contrast assumes a clearly graphic intensity.

The woman occupies the center of almost her entire pictorial universe. She does not appear represented as a heroic or distant character, but from a calm, elegant, introspective femininity. They are figures with serene gazes, slow poses, and restrained gestures. There is glamour, but it is an intimate and silent glamour.

Cats play an especially interesting role. More than 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 fulfill a similar function. They surround the protagonists, appear in their dresses, or merge into the backgrounds until sometimes erasing the boundary between figure and nature. In this way, woman, nature, and the animal world end up forming a single sensitivity.

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 stop being merely a print and become the main compositional resource: they surround both characters and center the entire scene in the gesture of the embrace. The result conveys protection, intimacy, and silence.

In other pieces, such as the woman seated beside 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 feeling cold. The protagonist does not perform any 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 depend on ostentatious technical virtuosity, but on the ability to reduce a scene until finding its essential emotion.

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 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 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: 90 x 120 cm of painting.
Original edition.
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This acrylic on canvas painting is a refined piece of stylized figurative art imbued with a marked Art Deco aesthetic and contemporary editorial illustration. The work features a serene female figure who holds an electric blue vase with vibrant red tulips, while embracing a black cat with an expressive gaze on her lap. The protagonist’s attire showcases a geometric reticule pattern in yellow and black, creating a striking contrast with the dazzling background of arches, radial motifs, and golden details on cobalt blue fields. The cleanliness of the strokes, the saturation of the color blocks, and the flawless play of symmetry give the composition a sophisticated, timeless, and high-visual-impact atmosphere.