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Metal artist - Photo: © Christian Wisskirchen/HSG
The visual arts play an important role in the social and economic reality of Haiti. Whilst most of the Caribbean has a rich tradition of art, we believe none of the other islands are as prolific and unique as Haiti. In comparison to its size and population, Haiti has an abundance of visual artists, predominantly painters, but also metalworkers and Vodou flag makers. This part of the website compiles articles and information about the various branches of the visual arts in Haiti.
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Despite Turmoil, Art Flourishes in Haiti |
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"Healing Ceremony" by Bruny Gerald
11 July 2001
by Trenton Daniel, Haitian Times
Paintings exploding with colors line the downtown thoroughfares and streets leading to the hillside family-owned hotels in suburban Petion-Ville. With shades of blue and red and yellow to match the streetside paintings and lotteries, tap-tap trucks wobble their way through the city's mad traffic. Signs of women with trendy hair styles hang over the beauty palours.
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Haitian sculptors are a big hit with English audiences |
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Frantz Jacques Guyodo with two sculptures, photo Leah Gordon.
by Charles Arthur
Three artists from the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, have been making a big impact during a month-long visit to England. Jean Hérald Celeur, André Eugène, and Frantz Jacques Guyodo - known collectively as the 'Sculptors of Grand Rue' - have thrilled audiences with their dramatic creations assembled from rusted vehicle chassis, car tyres, steering wheels, oil filters, brake drums, and other discarded items.
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A Raw Vision - Contemporary Haitian Art |
Leah Gordon
(This article first appeared in Haiti Briefing Number 12, April 1995)
Most of the Caribbean has a rich tradition of art, but none of the islands are as prolific and unique as Haiti. In comparison to its size and population, Haiti has an abundance of artists, predominantly painters, but also metalworkers and Vodou flag makers. Much of Haitian art has been classified as 'naive' or 'primitive' because of a simple, almost childlike style, usually without the use of perspective.
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Didier Civil - paper-mâché artisan and founder and director of the Centre Formation Artistique de Ja |
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Haiti's Vodou Blacksmiths |
Little Angel by Pierre Jocelyn (Croix des Bouquets, Haiti)
Recycled steel oil-drum
by Charles Arthur
(this article originally appeared in Raw Vision magazine, October 1995)
Haiti is the Caribbean nation famous for its successful slave revolution and, more recently, for decades of dictatorship and political unrest. It has also produced an abundance of creative and imaginative artists. One of the newest art forms to emerge is metal drum sculpture inspired by the rich mythology of Vodou. In a small dusty town ten miles north-east of the capital, Port-au-Prince, over a dozen different artists are turning old metal oil drums into unique and striking relief sculptures.
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