Harry Jacques Arijac
Architect, he worked with Sacha Thébaud who initiated him to the ancient
technique of encaustics (mix of wax, turpentine and pigments) in which
he is now a master. |
Gesner Armand
Initiated to drawing and watercolor at the "Centre d'Art", he received
a scholarship from the French government in 1960 and lived in Paris for
two years, then returned to Croix-des-Bouquets. Known for his
multicolored pigeons. |
Albott Bonhomme
As a young man, he works with his father as a fisherman and as a farmer.
The sea and the luxuriant nature mark him in an indelible way and color
all his work. His sea scenes of this first period are as famous as the
work about the birds that he undertakes in 1990. Extolled worldwide, he
is particularly adulated in France and Japan where the Yakkaichi Museum
dedicated him an exhibition in 1995. |
Claude Dambreville
Begins his training at the "Centre d'Art" and finishes it with a course
by mail provided by the ABC School of Paris. His painting and
his writing alternately occupy him. Technician and expert color artist
of international fame, his brilliant market scenes are always remembered. |
Albert Desmangles
As a child, he draws figures in dust. After a short career as a
businessman, he studies art with his uncle, a renowned sculptor. His
passion for ethnology and his relationships with accomplished painters
(Séjourné, Jérôme...) influence his creations where matter seems to come
from light. |
Abner Dubic
Self-taught, he expresses his view of daily life, from which
disappear all bitterness, ugliness and anguish. His festive
countryside scenes with clear and shimmering colors, and his acute sense
of detail which is harmoniously inserted in the whole, would suffice to
give the "Haitian Primitive" all its glory. André Malraux takes
notice of his work, and an exhibition of his paintings is organized in
Paris in 1975, that makes him a unanimously recognized artist. |
Préfète Duffaut
After his graduation from Primary school, his father teaches him
shipbuilding. That makes him sail very often along Haitian coasts. His
meeting with Rigaud Benoit and the American artist painter Krauss,
prompt him to join the "Centre d'Art". One recalls his detailed
paintings of his home town of Jacmel where he started, his contribution
to the mural paintings of the Holy Trinity Episcopalian Cathedral of
Port-au-Prince, and the exacerbated onirism in all his works. |
Jean-Bernard Etienne
Shows since early childhood a true passion for painting. This painter is
the child of inspiration combined with innate gifts. Recognized as an
expressionist, his children portraits will certainly be preserved for
posterity. |
Jean-Claude (Tiga) Garoute
The very bright and gifted child already announced the great artist who
he is now. Founding member of the Poto-Mitan, of the Museum of Ceramics
and of Saint-Soleil. Exploration and authenticity are the keywords that
fit this very special child of Haitian Art, internationally
distinguished, whose roots plunge deeply in a Haitian vernacular magic. |
Louis Georges
Since early childhood, this painter manifests a great taste for shapes
and colors, and he takes to painting by himself. One recalls
particularly his still-life paintings and his hyper-realistic scenes of
country life. His acute sense of chromatics quickly prompted the
admiration of his peers. Numerous exhibitions. |
Jacques Geslin
At the Beaux-Arts, he frequents the studios of painters Jérôme,
Dupoux and Simil during 6 years. The dream of a friendly jungle haunts
him. He reproduces it in his works, dictated by the imaginary, with a
lot of finesse and dexterity. One sees parrots, goats, and horses in a
luxuriant vegetation. His work is shown in great collections around the
world. |
Jacques E. Gourgues
Trained at the "Centre d'Art" then at the "Foyer des Arts Plastiques" he
is without question one of the prominent figures of Haitian painting.
The technical expertise, acquired with time, reinforces, as needed, the
dazzling "brutality" of his first paintings. People and things pop out
of his works which belie a breathtaking virtuosity. Appreciated
everywhere, his works, more exhibited abroad than in Haiti, command very
high prices. |
Calixte Henri
After a 4 year stay in the "Centre d'Art", this man obsessed with
impressionism and cubism, abandons his brushes and adopts the razor
blade and later the knife. His flat semi-abstracts, tinted of
pink, yellow, and blue, complement the solidity of his lines and
unveil a rich and complex interior life. |
Lionel Laurenceau
Fine tunes the training of the Beaux-Arts at the ABC School of Paris.
In 1965, he wins his first award at the New York World Fair. At Laval
University of Quebec, he has been pursuing, for almost 30 years, studies
about human cerebral structures, research that feeds his pictorial
universe in which Haitian types are depicted. It is impossible not to
feel called by his quest of the Truth, a constant collision between hot
and cold, emotion and logic, red and blue. |
Luckner Lazard
Begins a very complete training at the "Centre d'Art", then starts a
cycle of studying trips to Paris, Rome, Madrid, and Mexico. Grown up, he
becomes a professional painter and moves to the USA where he continues
his work. |
Hervé Lebreton
Begins his training at the Beaux-Arts and finishes it at Paris and in
Chile. Very talented singer and writer, this painter has a passion for
analytic psychology. This colors his work with the force of evidence.
Everything seems to be coming out of a cosmic surrealistic dream. |
Jean-Claude Legagneur
Works with famous artists like Bernard Wah, Raphaël Denis, Davertige,
and Luckner Lazard, then continues his studies in the USA. Back home, he
happily joins "l'Ecole de la Beauté" (The School of Beauty) with
Jean-René Jérôme and Bernard Séjourné. His work is full of an intense
sincerity and belongs to the irrepressible. |
Franck Louissaint
Begins to paint alone before he feels the need to train in the "Centre
d'Art". He cultivates an hyper-realistic manner that he soon teaches at
the Centre. His street and countryside scenes are famous and
one owes him the cross-over between the "Naive" and the "Modern". |
Franck Louissaint
Begins to paint alone before he feels the need to train in the "Centre
d'Art". He cultivates an hyper-realistic manner that he soon teaches at
the Centre. His street and countryside scenes are famous and
one owes him the cross-over between the "Naive" and the "Modern". |
Ernst Louizor
At the Beaux-Arts, Georges Ramponneau teaches him drawing, composition
and perspective. A huge visual memory and a remarkable sharpness of
sight are at the service of his very personal style. He is the
archetypical impressionist of Haitian painting. |
Stivenson Magloire
Born of a mother who was a painter, this self-taught artist is almost
immediately recognized by his peers. He works with Tiga and exhibits in
the USA, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Life, alas, did not give him
the opportunity to carry to its term a work of promising originality. |
Michèle Manuel
The "Centre d'Art", then the workplace of the painter Cervoni in Puerto
Rico, and later, the University of Rochester in New York, take care of
her pictorial training. This woman painter, whose work is considered
emblematic enough to have one of her paintings, "Le Marché" (The Market)
reproduced as a postal stamp in 1981, works with three of her fellow
painters in her studio of the Tête de l'Eau. |
Alix Roy
Gives himself teachers as prestigious as Luce Turnier, Maurice Borno,
and Lucien Price, before he goes to New York to improve his art. It is
the childhood that reigns in this universe, at once ingenious
and ironic, and whose drawing especially enhanced by color,
strengthens and moves. |
Jean Adrien Seïde
This painter whose painting has such a very characteristic texture
receives his early artistic education at the "Académie des Arts
Plastiques", in 1973. His first exhibition in 1977, at the Nader's Art
Gallery is a real success and the start of a long series of art
exhibitions throughout the world. |
Bernard Séjourné
After an exceptionally protected childhood, he enrolls at the Beaux-Arts,
and there he studies sculpture. He also enters the universe of dance and
theater. His first paintings have painfully obsessional aspects, then
his art flourishes and becomes serene. He was a high admirer of
womanhood. "The Moulton Rothschild wine of 1986" bears his name. |
Galland Sémérand
Grows in Port-au-Prince and thus does not belong to the School of the
North. He claims not to belong to any particular school. An architecture
student, the historical monuments and the "Gingerbread" houses already
fascinate him, and his work, with great accuracy, expresses with a touch
of sweet nolstagy the splendor and the precious courtesy of an idyllic
Haiti. |
Jean-Louis Senatus
Starts to paint around 18. He receives his artistic education at the
"Foyer des Arts Plastiques". Renowned above all for his finely, almost
magically, executed camaieux. Many exhibitions in Europe, the USA,
and Haiti. |
Jean-Pierre Théard
Architect by profession, he travels to Mexico where he is very much
impressed by this discipline in general and by the work of Diego Riviera
in particular. On his return home he starts painting and develops an
interesting stylistic mingling of cubism and impressionism before
undertaking to paint in his so personal extraordinary realistic style.
By 1981, he opens his own gallery. |
Buffon Thermidor
From his years of discretion he assiduously attends Philomé Obin's
Atelier. The so very peculiar architecture of his hometown
constantly feeds his inspiration. As a matter of fact, he is a past master at painting these
colonial houses with balconies of woodworking laces. He is one of the
greatest representatives of the Ecole du Cap. |
Frantz Zéphirin
Begins painting with Antoine Obin but frees himself quite early from
the influence of the School of the North to reach his own style. His
creations reflect an imagination that is perpetually delirious.
His animals with sharp, contrasted, shining tones, impress one
in an indelible way. |
