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Haitian wall art gallery |
| Date Added: October 07, 2011 11:09:34 AM |
| Author: Gwen Smith |
| Category: Arts |
| "The Haitian art is familiar to the people all over the world. This typical art is formed from Haiti in 1950 by a blacksmith Georges Liautaud. The Haitian art are completely adorned with picture and patterns by lively colours. The sculpture gives the information of culture, development, arts of Haiti. One art among the Haitian art is a typical type which is Haitian Metal Art. Metal drums which is used for storing petrol or other products are brought from the harbour of the city capitol of Port au Prince. After that they are carried to the adjacent town named Croix-des-Bouquets by hand cart or taxi to the metal artists' work area. Croix-des-Bouquets are the heart places of Haitian metal art. We will hear the noise from the houses of the metal artists who are expressing their art in the metal drums. Some of the metal works are far better than other arts. By utilizing these 55-gallon oil drums, the workers first take of the round ends of the can and place it along with dried banana and sugar cane leaves inside the cylinders. After that it will be placed on the fire in order to burn off the remaining paints and residue. After that they will cut the can horizontally. Then it flattened to sheets. The metal work will begins by marking the art on it using chalk. Using a chisel, hammer and different types of other equipments, the design is cut out from the sheets. At last the finished work will be signed by the art worker and it is covered with protective coating. This art sculpture is very time consuming and need good labour and so it is very unique. The complex sculpture of Haitian art contains the Catholic, African, tribal, Voodoo culture. Haitian paintings is discovered by Taino Indians on the walls of caves. One of the Haitian Art gallery is the Gallery arc en ciel. Many paintings, art works and sculptures of Haiti are found in Haitian art gallery. This gallery provides internet surfing to add and find out new beautiful paintings. Gallerie arc en ciel has a good collection of Haitian arts which is of great standard compared to other Haiti arts and this makes the gallery so popular. In Haiti an emerging group created a type of Haitian metal wall art on the flattened used oil cans. This wall art contain the culture of Haitian tribes and it is simply astonishing and interesting. These art is sometimes made into large designs or left unpainted and some are made out of vibrant colours. Haitian Voodoo, a group of tribal people emerged out from Caribbean place of Haiti, was brought by African slaves in 16th century. The tribes were suppressed as they were not willing to follow the Roman Catholicism, the religion of slavers from their own traditional African culture known as Voodoo. Haitian Voodoo art is composed of Satanism and zombies, because the Westerners have rooted the minds of the people with horror novels and movies. " |
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