Haitian contemporary art

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Fragment of a new perpective of hatian art by Julio Desmont.

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FRAGMENT OF NEW PERSPECTIVE OF

HAITIAN ART

Julio Desmont

Julio Desmont

My art is my encounter:encounter with God, with the universebetween life and deathbetween hate and lovebetween lie and truthbetween light and shadowbetween the seen and the unseenbetween the known and the unknownbetween the manifest and the un-manifest

My art is my point, my COMPLETE ENCOUNTER!!!

Part ISPEED

Creation 2011

Free walk50”X96”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Jam50”X96”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Active stop50”X96”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Time Count-up50”X96”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Red-Yellow Shift50”X96”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Attention Pedestrian50”X96”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

U-turn50”X96”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Both Lane50”X96”

oil mixed media on canvas

Highway Mobil50”X96”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Free Way Go50”X96”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Part IIEnergy EngineCreation 2010

Circuit48”X52”

oil mixed media on canvas

Golden Loop48”X52”

oil mixed media on canvas

Silver wind48”X52”

oil mixed media on canvas

Voltage48”X52”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Burning gas24”X26”

oil mixed media on canvas

Whirlwind24”X26”

oil mixed media on canvas

Turbine24”X26”

oil mixed media on canvas

Stop, Attention, Go!!!24”X26” oil mixed media on

canvas

Energy balance24”X26”

oil mixed media on canvas

Resurrection of the Ovaries35”X38”

oil mixed media on canvas

Ennegrtic Fusion48”X52”

oil mixed media on canvas

Resurrection of the Sperm35”X38”

oil mixed media on canvas

Conversation30”X40”

oil mixed media on canvas

Atlas24”X26”

oil mixed media on canvas

Rainbow Curtain24”X26”

Acrylic mixed media on canvas

Inside Reality26”X48”

oil mixed media on canvas

White Dove 136cm X70cm

oil mixed media on canvas

Blue Butterfly26”X54”

oil mixed media on canvas

Sublime24”X26”

oil mixed media on canvas

Ascension26”X48”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Sunny Day26”X48”

oil mixed media on canvas

Light Balance24”X26”

oil mixed media on canvas

Red Butterfly 37“X 63"

oil mixed media on canvas

Emotion moves26”X48”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Staircase12”X20”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Looping the Sky 20”X24”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Silver Face 17”X24”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Dialog of Peace and Beauty22”X32”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

The Horse and the Bull-man22”X32”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Left Eye22”X32”

acrylic mixed media on canvas

Flying horse

Re-creation

Biography of Julio DesmontBorn in 1983, in Camperrin, a town in the south of Haiti. Julio Desmont moved to Port au Prince in his in early childhood, where he began his artistic journey. In his elementary art days he worked with crayons and watercolors. His inspirations in these early times were the animation of the Walt Disney cartoons characters, the cubism of Pablo Picasso whose inspirations went back to Africa and the original American painter, Gerogia Okeeffe. His major influence however, was the totemic arts of his people with its roots in Africa characterize by a chain of elements. This modernist artist employ deep vibrant colors, lines and shapes that are at times mesmerizing and evokes a quickening in the hearts and body of onlookers akin to a spiritual experience.In 2003, he entered the Ecole Nationale Des Beaux Arts (ENARTS) in Port au Prince to study fine arts.He studied with Haitian artist and masters ValcinII, Dieudonne Cedor, Ludovic Booz, Jean Claude Garoute (ti ga), Harold Alfonse and mentored by Dr. Michel Phillipe Lherebours director of the Musee d’ Art Haitien du college Saint Pierre in Port au prince, Haiti. At the early stage of his career, he has commissioned by galleries and personals around the United States, specifically in New York, Chicago, Miami, and across Europe, Austria, Germany, Holland, Greece, France, England, Denmark... He won the Sosua Bay Annual Painting Contest in December 2008.

Julio Desmont believes that an artist must stay creative and not worry about what the painting is for or where it is going. Propelled by this spirit, he is now a full time artist and a pioneer in the current abstract movement called Divinism, which emphasizes spontaneous strokes, improvisation, and divine touch. The core of Divinism is the recognition of our common humanity as humans through the arts. The artist Julio currently resides in the Dominican Republic. He has a successful art career. He has participated in various collective exhibitions in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Collective and individual exhibit- Work Day, Grotte des Art Plastiques,Haiti, 1998- Font Verrette Victim, Ecole Nationale des Arts, Haiti, 2003- Expo Liberte, Ecole Nationale des Arts, Haiti, 2003- Sosua y la Bahia, Sosua Bay resort, Dominican Republic, 2008- Energy Engine “Divinism I”, Santo-Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2010- Speed “Divinism II”, Art Society of Kingston, New York, USA 2012