{"id":1021,"date":"2014-09-15T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:07:45","slug":"the-maine-artists-animals-bernard-langlais-at-une","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/2014\/09\/15\/the-maine-artists-animals-bernard-langlais-at-une\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maine Artist\u2019s Animals: Bernard Langlais at UNE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/bcwebcricket.jpg\" alt=\"Bernaise Langlais. Cricket\" class=\"wp-image-576\" style=\"width:450px;height:207px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/bcwebcricket.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/bcwebcricket-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>The Maine Artist\u2019s Animals<\/em>&nbsp;gathered paintings, drawings and sculptures that together highlight a powerful concern in his work: how to explore the aesthetics of form through animal representation. Whether in paint, pencil or pen as well as with paper, formica, wood and nails, the artworks chosen here from the Kohler Foundation\u2019s 2014 gift to UNE\u2019s permanent collection combine simple materials to considerable effect. Sometimes folksy, sometimes cartoonish, but always carefully designed to show recognizable animals, these artworks also often call attention to their own constructedness. An early pioneer of a trend among artists that has only intensified in recent decades, Langlais goes beyond the mere intention to observe animals with his art. His purpose, instead, seems to be to provoke our thinking about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bernard Langlais\u2019 ambition was simple: he wanted to be the artist who represented Maine. A native Mainer, born the son of a carpenter in Old Town in 1921, he served in the navy during World War II, after which he returned to study art at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, among other places. Although his art training led him to spend many years in New York, Washington, and Paris, the man known to friends all his life as Blackie came back to settle for good in Cushing, Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine Artist\u2019s Animals&nbsp;gathered paintings, drawings and sculptures that together highlight a powerful concern in his work: how to explore the aesthetics of form through animal representation. Whether in paint, pencil or pen as well as with paper, formica, wood and nails, the artworks chosen here from the Kohler Foundation\u2019s 2014 gift to UNE\u2019s permanent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biddeford-campus-art-gallery","category-exhibits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}