Lucía Laurent - XL - Arquitectura y Pasos

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

Her relationship with images 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. Later she spent several years in 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.

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 with 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. 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 preserve 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 naïve 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, ochres, mustards, and cream tones sit beside deep blacks, bluish 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 almost her entire pictorial universe. She does not appear represented as a heroic or distant figure, but from a tranquil, 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 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 cat’s shapes almost 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 sometimes 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 are no longer just a print and become the main compositional resource: they surround both characters and center the entire scene on 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 performs no concrete action; she simply exists within her space. That very 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 finding its essential emotion.

Her universe is feminine, botanical, domestic, and affectionate. It features everyday beauty, the relationship with animals, care, contemplation, and nature as a refuge. Her paintings possess a particularly attractive quality: they may 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 grab 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 artist Lucía Laurent made in Acrylic on high-quality professional canvas.
Dimension 90 x 120 cm of painting.
Original edition.
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This acrylic on canvas painting stands out for a refined graphic language inspired by Art Deco and contemporary neo-figurativism. The scene presents a profile view of a woman with brown skin and an elegant wide-brimmed pamela hat, dressed in a fluid color-block outfit, exchanging a careful glance with a black-and-white cat seated at her feet. The composition is rigorously organized by architectural elements—arches, staircases, and a stylized botanical background—delimited by precise dark contour lines. Its vibrant yet balanced color palette combines intense carmine reds, ochre yellows, and forest greens with the solidity of black and white, achieving an atmosphere of sophistication, geometric balance, and distinguished serenity.