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Hector Hyppolite

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Image result for hector hyppoliteHector Hyppolite (1894 – 1948) was a Haitian painter. Born in Saint-Marc, Hyppolite was a third generation Vodou priest, or houngan. He also made shoes and painted houses before taking up fine art painting, which he did untrained. Hyppolite spent five years outside of Haiti from 1915-1920. Hyppolite’s talent as an artist was noticed by Philippe Thoby-Marcelin, who brought him to Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince in 1945. There Hyppolite worked in the studio run by Dewitt Peters. In 1944 Peters opened an art center in the capital that provided free materials. Before arriving at the Centre d’Art Hyppolite had painted upon cardboard using chicken feathers and sold to visiting United States Marines because he owned no brushes.
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The Congo Queen. by 1946 | MoMA
Peters had first noticed Hyppolite’s work in 1943 on the exterior doors of a bar in Mont Ruis, which Hyppolite had painted with flower and bird designs. Flowers could represent attributes of deities in Vodou symbolism, and although the doors had not been explicitly religious Hyppolite recognized interest in Vodou among art buyers and incorporated Vodou themes into his work during his time at Peters’s studio. André Breton, a leading surrealist, traveled to Haiti in 1945 with Cuban artist Wifredo Lam. Lam purchased two of Hyppolite’s paintings; Breton purchased five paintings and wrote about Hyppolite’s work in Surrealism and Painting. Although Breton included Hyppolite among surrealists, Hyppolite’s work was more realistic and religious than an effort to reproduce dream imagery. Nonetheless, Breton’s regard for Hyppolite’s work brought Hyppolite and Haitian painting to a wider audience. In January 1947 Hyppolite exhibited at a UNESCO exhibition inParis and received an enthusiastic reception. The United States writer Truman Capote praised Hyppolite’s painting “because there’s nothing in it that has been slyly transposed”. Image result for hector hyppolite Hyppolite, a prolific painter, typically depicted Vodou scenes and created between 250 and 600 paintings during the last three years of his life. He died at about age 54 in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Source: Wikipedia, MOMA, Art Haiti.
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