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• BOB CORBETT'S ART PROJECT
  • Basic list of more than 800 known Haitian Painters    This growing and working list names the artists and in many cases then refers on to examples of the artists' work on line and in printed sources as well as points to sources for bibliographic and other data. Recommended additions to the list are most welcome.

  • Index of 5300+ Haitian art works photographed and printed in books, magazines and exhibition and auction catalogues.

  • Annotated Bibliography of 168 books used in the indexing work above.

  • Brief biographies of Haitian artists with bibliographic documentation

  Other art post and links

  • Early U.S. Art Exhibition   A few paragraphs on folk art

  • Haitian Art before and after 1944 and Dewitt Peters    A discussion from Bob Corbett's discussion forum from December 1997.

  • Louverture Art Gallery exhibition of 4 works of Rigaud Benoit    An exhibition catalogue of 5 pages for a gallery in California. 4 colorful prints.

  • Haitian Paintings from the Cap Haitien Area:   Visit the web site of Madison Smartt Bell

  • Divine Transpositions: Recent Scholarship on Vodou and Santería Religious Art  Numerous short reviews of recent books on Voodoo and art by Deborah Wyrick . The essay is fillied with great photos as well.

  • "Audubon's Artful Nature"   Two articles from 1997
  • Scandal of the Audubon Stamps  
    • "Scandal of the Audubon Stamps"  Comments by Brian D. Oakes
    • Guy Antoine's web site     has a great deal of information of this episode.

  • "A Convert Speaks up for Haitian Art"   Article on Jonathan Demme's art collection. June, 1997

  • "On Haitian Painting"   By Edouard Glissant, 1989

  • The Haitian Art Renaissance?   Was there really a "renaissance" in Haitian art, or was the change introduced in 1944 of a different order?

  • "Haitian Sequin-bead Flags"   Visit a collaborative group's site

  • "Islands of Art"  Article on Caribbean art exhibit, 1997

  • List of Auction Catalogues from Sotheby's, Christie's and Other Houses

  • Murals of Holy Trinity

  • The Statue of Neg Mawon or Marron Inconnu   This is the statue of the run away slave calling others to revolt. It stands across from the National Palace

  • VOODOO: Spirits in Haitian Art   This essay by R.C. Brictson concerns the art exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Man from May 2001 — February 2002. I'm not sure of the original web site where it appeared. This essay is primarily concerning works in this exhibit, but along the way Brictson does give a thumbnail sketch of the interrelationship of Voodoo and art.

  • Haitian Art Links:
    • Holy Trinity Murals can be found in the "Arts" section of Windows on Haiti has photos of the murals

    For information on paintings or other art questions, for evaluation of art works, or information on buying or selling, check at: The Haitian Art Society

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Gerard Valcin: Ceremony in a Vodun Temple (oil painting, 1963): especially note the veve drawing on the floor, the creation of a three-dimensional cross with the sword going through the center of the circle and the veve drawing, and how the patterns of the devotees arms moving as they dance could be the curling lines around the borders of many of the drapos.

Source: www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfrb/haitianvodou.htm