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Haitian art has a rich history that dates back well before the arrival of slave ships and Columbus in 1492. The Taino Indians created marvelous paintings on cave walls and their naked bodies, as well as colored graphics on the walls of their huts, contributing to the formation of the Haitian painting tradition. This tradition was further developed in the world wind of Saint Domingue, where talented artists created exceptional works. Haitian painting reached its first peak during the governments of Christophe, Petion, Boyer, and Soulouque, where painters such as Thimoleon Dejoie, Numa Desroches, and the father-son duo of Colbert Lochard and Archibald Lochard flourished.
Despite political instability, economic stagnation, and the rise of photography and chromolithography, artists such as Louis Rigaud, Edward Goldman, and Lorvana Pierrot Lagojunis distinguished themselves during a challenging period. A revival of Haitian painting occurred in the 1930s with the formation of the “Ecole Indigeniste,” which included Petion Savain, Georges Ramponneau, Edward Preston, and Antoine Derenoncourt, and led to the creation of the “Centre d’Art” in 1944 by American English teacher Dewitt Peters, who discovered many talented artists, including Hector Hyppolit
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Brief History ceremony Haitian Art
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This post was first published in the Jamaica Monitor of February 6, 2022. It is now reproduced here with a few updates and corrections.
The occasion for my trip to Haiti, which ended on February 4, was my role in the Caribbean Cross-Residency project of Le Centre d’Art, which is funded by the UNESCO Fund for International Cultural Diversity. The project was conceived to foster greater collaboration and exchange between Haitian and other Caribbean artists and cultural organizations, and represents an important new programme direction for Le Centre d’Art, which was previously more exclusively focused on Haitian art.
In a sense, however, this Caribbean exchange programme is also a return to the historical roots of the Centre. During its early years, in the 1940s, it served a meeting place for Haitian artists and visitors such as the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam and the French surrealist leader André Breton, who had fled France for the Americas at the onset of the second World War. The archives of Le Centre d’Art have, in fact, been recognized by UNESCO as part of the Documentary Heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean and are an invaluable resource on the art history and intellectual life of Haiti, the broader Caribbean and beyond.
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