{"product_id":"caution-falling-rocks","title":"Caution: Falling Rocks, 2014","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Caution: Falling Rocks\" is an acrylic on canvas painting created by René Lalonde in 2014. The artwork is signed 'RENÉ LALONDE' lower left. The artwork ships framed in a contemporary black frame and has a framed size of 33.75 x 33.75\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is difficult to categorize the vibrant, luminous, and delightful work of René Lalonde, an art that he himself referred to as ‘New Modern Art’ and which was rooted in many other traditions from American Modernists like Thomas Hart Benton and Charles Sheeler to the psychedelia of Peter Max and most importantly the infused and magical light of Maxfield Parrish. Lalonde’s world was strongly influenced by his ‘monastery-like’ time in boarding school from the ages of 6 – 12. There, he was forced to imagine the outside world and thus developed a vivid imagination as well as what he described as an ‘inner peace’ that held throughout his life.  Additionally, he was profoundly affected by the revolutionary events in the music world of the sixties, beginning with the Beatles and the British Invasion, and evolving into the psychedelic culture of the late sixties and seventies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis mature style, developed throughout the eighties and nineties shows influences from fauvism and surrealism in addition to the artists mentioned above, and yet, Lalonde’s art is always uniquely his own, not belonging to any of these art movements. That unique vision has drawn collectors for decades to artworks that express an indelible ‘je ne sais quoi’ – fascinating, strange, intriguing, and somehow emotionally satisfying. Lalonde gives us odd and enchanting still lifes, intimate interiors, fantastical exteriors and landscapes, and always a masterful blend of vivid colors and unusual shapes. Ordinary objects, landscapes, or architecture through Lalonde’s paintbrush always metamorphosize into extraordinary visions. Welcome to the world of René Lalonde!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"René Lalonde","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32675667083335,"sku":"ORLAL093714","price":4850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1551\/3581\/files\/702_ORLAL093714__P-Image_falling_rocks_orlal093714copy.jpg?v=1760567963","url":"https:\/\/martinlawrence.com\/products\/caution-falling-rocks","provider":"Martin Lawrence Galleries","version":"1.0","type":"link"}