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"Markets"
Deco Haiti
Original Haitian Work In Acrylic On Canvas. Tension On Chassis. - 31 Inches x 39 Inches
Colours washed from the walls, colors from the ubiquitous markets, bright colors from the houses of the villages, surrealist decoration of the "Tactap" through the cities.
Haiti is a festival of colors, as if one wanted to escape, coloring the world, from the insurmountable difficulties of daily life, as if one wanted to take, through painting, the speech very often forbidden.
The painting is everywhere. This form of expression seems to be practiced since the dawn of time among Haitians. It is not known how this people became "a people of painters". Naive, religious, historical, and holy sun paintings are part of daily life.
Neu after independence, (1804) King Christophe, reigning over the North region, created an Academy of Painting in Cap Haïtien. From 1830 to 1860, historical and religious painting grew greatly. It traces with undeniable talent the history of the emancipation of this people who were the first to free themselves by their own means of slavery. She sings the glory of an amazing religion (the Vaudou Cult) that assimilates and metamorphoses with poetry and humor the characters of the Catholic religion or the spirits who came with the slaves of deep Africa.
Thanks to an American professor and talented painter Peters DEWITT, who created after the 40th War, a school of art and painting in Port au Prince
the world soon discovers with astonishment and admiration Haitian naive art. Many men of both French and English culture are interested (André BRETON, André MALRAUX, Selden RODMAN... These post-war years will be fertile in innovations and artistic discoveries and will be a turning point in the history of naive art.
This school welcomes many painters and other talents (sculpture, iron work) who have no artistic culture or real technical knowledge, but who possess an inspiration, a great vitality of expression, freshness, an innate sense of colour and trait.
However, it is from daily life that Haitian painting was born, long before Americans or Europeans were interested.
The Haitians have always possessed a pronounced taste for color, for the magic word of drawing and decoration. Many think that it is the deep aspirations of the Vaudou who are at the origin of this sense of painting. Many Workshops are created: the Northern School with Philome OBI N as its leader, the South School, with Prefect DUFFAUT, the Artibonite School with Ismaël SINACILUS, and more recently the painting Saint Soleil which was born under the impulse of Tiga (Jean-Claude GAROUTE) and Maud ROBART. Among the illiterate peasants are great artists such as Levoy EXIL, Denis SMITH, Louisiana SAINT-FLEURANT etc. André Malraux visited them in 1976, a few months before his death. He made this aptology in a magnificent chapter of his book " The timeless ": he will say of this primitive school "the most striking experience and the only controllable magic painting in our century".
The Haitian pictorial art is multiple, all possible styles, from the most naive to the most sophisticated, are present. Through the magic of the creative power of this people, art takes colors, forms, an atmosphere that is not found anywhere else.
The Haitian painting is a popular expression, mixed with dream and hope. In this impoverished country, slum painters try to survive thanks to their art. Some will become masters. The color against misery, the joy of artistic work against the horrors of exclusion, the beauty fighting against injustice, is the real bet.


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Artworks Styles : Naif - Realistic
Artworks Topics : Birds - Fruit - Life
Artworks Media : Acrylic On Canvas
Artworks added the : Added September 8 2009



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