21.5 x 25.5 Painting ART by the LATE Haitian master ANDRE PIERRE-HAITI-HAITIAN

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21.5 x 25.5 Painting ART by the LATE Haitian master ANDRE PIERRE-HAITI-HAITIAN:
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An oil on canvas 21.5 x 25.5 inches bythe LATE Great HaitianMasterANDRE PIERRE
André Pierre, né en 1914 et décédé en 2005, est un peintre vaudou haitien.
Sommaire [masquer]1 Biographie2 Œuvre3 Expositions collectives4 Collections5 Bibliographie6 RéférencesBiographie[modifier | modifier le code]La vie de cet artiste vaudou est quasiment inconnue. On sait seulement de ce modeste agriculteur qu\'il vivait près d\'un temple vaudou ou il officiait comme assistant, puis comme prêtre, à proximité de Port-au-Prince et que, autodidacte venu tardivement à la peinture, il déclarait peindre sous l\'inspiration des esprits ou loas1. André Pierre a d\'abord été découvert par l\'écrivaine et réalisatrice américaine Maya Deren en 1947. L\'échange est fructueux : André la conseille dans ses recherches sur le vaudou alors que Maya l\'encourage à peindre et lui présente Peters DeWitt, fondateur en 1943 du centre d\'art de Port-au-Prince, consacré aux arts traditionnels d\'Haïti. André Pierre, après avoir longtemps hésité, se consacre à la peinture à partir de 1959 et Peters DeWitt l\'aide en lui fournissant du matériel de peinture2. L\'œuvre d\'André Pierre a aussi été mise en lumière à la suite de l\'ultime voyage d\'André Malraux, à Haïti, évoqué au chapitre XI de l\'Intemporel, publié en 19753. Selden Rodman (en), lui a rendu hommage en 1988 dans Where art is Joy - Haitian art : The First Forty Years, tout en évoquant la pauvreté de l\'artiste consécutive aux difficultés politiques de l\'Ile2.
Œuvre[modifier | modifier le code]Représentés dans un style irréaliste, les tableaux aux couleurs flamboyantes de cet artiste hougan typique frappent par leur puissance onirique et leur symbolisme vaudou que le profane ne peut guère déchiffrer1. À propos de cet artiste, André Malraux a dit : « Il nous raconte toute l\'épopée du Vaudou. Tous les secrets du vaudou »3. Ses œuvres ont été exposées à Haïti, en Angleterre, à Dortmund, à Zabreb1. Le musée Fowler, en Californie, a organisé une rétrospective de son œuvre en 1993. Un an avant sa mort, le public français a pu la découvrir à l\'ancienne abbaye Notre-Dame de Daoulas en 2003-2004 lors de la plus vaste exposition collective consacrée à l\'art vaudou d\'Haïti en France4.
Expositions collectives[modifier | modifier le code]2010 : Private show, Casa de Campo, Saint Domingue, République dominicaine21.2003 : Ettercolombus.com, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norvège25.2000 : Anges et Démons, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France26.Collections[modifier | modifier le code]Museo del Bario, New-York, États-UnisMusée du Panthéon National d’Haïti (MUPANAH), Port-au-Prince, HaitiCentre d’Art, Port-au-Prince, HaitiWaterloo Museum at the Waterloo center for the Arts, Iowa, États-UnisThe Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, États-UnisKunsternes Hus, Oslo, NorvègeHuntington Museum of Art, West VirginiaBibliographie[modifier | modifier le code]Jean-Marie Drot, Paris, Edizioni Paradox, 2009 (ISBN 978 2 915259 16 2).Gerald Alexis, Peintres haitiens , Paris, Le Cercle d\'Art, 2000, 30,28 p. (ISBN 2 7022 0585 2).(it) Jean-Marie Drot, La Rencontre des deux Mondes, Rome, Edizioni Carte Segrete, 1992 (ISBN 9788885203631).Michel Philippe Lerebours, Haïti et ses peintres de 1804 à 1980. Souffrances & Espoirs d\'un Peuple, 2 volumes, Port-au-Prince, 1989 (OCLC 22956441).Etter Colombus.com, catalogue d\'exposition au Kunsternes Hus, (ISBN 82-7111-047-0)Donald Cosentino, Sacred arts of Hitian Vodou, exhibition catalog for the show at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, (ISBN 0-930741-47-1)
Andre Pierre was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti around 1915 and moved at an early age to Croix-des-Missions on the outskirts of the capital where he made his living as a farmer. He had practiced Voudou since childhood and in the late 1940\'s met the American filmmaker Maya Deren who had come to Haiti to make a film on dance but became a initiate in the houmfour where he was La Place, second in command. The houmfour was decorated with gourds on which he had painted images of vodou spirits and it was Ms. Deren who suggested to him that he should paint on canvas and offer his paintings to the Centre d\"Art, which he did.
Shortly afterwards he began a twenty year relationship with the dealer Issa el Saieh and went early each morning to the capital to paint in the atelier that Issa provided. Eventually he became so renowned, not only for his art but for his personality, that he stopped going to Issa\'s and painted in the compound where he lived and where he had built his own houmfour; he was by then a Houngan. Andre Pierre was the dominant artist of the second generation, spiritual heir to the legendary Hector Hyppolite. Collectors and journalists from all over the world came to visit him in the modest hut where he painted lovingly detailed portraits of the gods of the vodou pantheon by the light of an oil lamp. In the mid-1970\'s the place had a thatched roof and chickens strutted in and out the door. Often his visitors brought a bottle of rum which he would open and pour three drops on the dirt floor of the hut to honor the Trinity, \" Pou lepere, e lefis, e lesentespri\" he intoned in his ancient voice. He would take a sip, pass the bottle and sit at his easel, chanting songs and instructing his guests about the postive aspects of the religion. His mission in life was to present Vodou as respectable, on a par with all the other major religions. His pronouncements, on Vodou and on life in general were wise and sophisticated and were often punctuated with his trademark subterranean chuckle.
As the political situation in Haiti worsened in the mid 1990\'s and the road to Croix-des-Missions became less safe to travel, he became somewhat isolated. In the last few years of his life he was diagnosed with diabetes which affected his eyesight and his ability to paint. By 2004 he was almost totally blind and had stopped painting altogether.
Andre Pierre passed away on October 4, 2005.
(1916 - 2005)Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Andre Pierre was a farmer who became obsessed with the Vaudou religion and became a Vaudou priest. In 1949 he became friendly with an American, Maya Deren, who is well known for her study and writings on Vaudou. She got him involved in the Centre de Arte. His paintings reflect his religious beliefs. He also paints religious gourds, bottles, and walls of vaudou temples.
Pierre uses bright and intense colors and many details in his works. Many of his paintings will be framed with large mysterious trees that have symbolic meaning. Pierre was widely known as the heir to Hector Hyppolite. His works are permanently exhibited in the Nadar Gallery and he was closely associated with the Issa Gallery.
Andre Pierre was born in Port-au-Prince in 1914, and died in 2005. He was the artistic and spiritual heir of Hector Hyppolite, the \"father\" of Haitian painting. Born into a rural agricultural family, he decided one day in his youth to devote his life to Voudou. He was a houngan, or voudou priest, and a religious painter; his art documents the Haitian religion. Almost all his paintings represent the symbolic appearances of these African spirits. His first paintings were done inside the hollowed gourds used to contain the blood of sacrificed animals or offerings to loas, and he later began painting on board and canvas.
Major parts of his life work have been the decoration of hounfors, or voudou temples, some of which have been lost forever in various episodes of dechoukage, or the uprooting violence which is a part of the pattern of Haitian history. But most his works on canvas and panels survive, leaving us a precious history of the art of this \"old master\" of Haitian art.
Andre Pierre is considered one of Haiti\'s greatest painters. Seldon Rodman, in his excellent work \'Where Art Is Joy: Haitian Art - The First Forty Years\' says: \"Gerard Valcin and Wilmino Domond, next to Andre Pierre himself, were the dominent figures of the second generation.\" Pierre\'s paintings rarely come on the market today, and are treasured by serious collectors of Haitian art. Pierre\'s art has been documented in scores of books on naive and religious art, and have decorated the covers of many of these, including Seldon Rodman\'s \'Artists in Tune With Their World - Masters of Popular Art in the Americas & Their Relation to the Folk Tradition.\'