Haiti Jorelus Joseph Painting - Naive Art Haitian School Voodoo Birds

Very beautiful acrylic on fabric Family of birdcatchers The canvas measures 92 X 61 cm In its lacquered wooden frame 70 X 101 cm (wear) Very good condition see photos Original work by Jorelus Joseph (1939-2009) Haitian Voodoo Painter Signed lower left Trace of label on the back "family of birdcatchers" Very careful shipping Reduced shipping costs for group shipments I can be reached for any request Contact fredericchavanne@hotmail.com 06 62 70 08 91 JOSEPH Jorélus "For the "dots-taches", I had not seen anything like it before. I was looking for a personal style, something that expresses myself better. I only paint voodoo. I know all the "loa" (spirits)... I visit a lot of peristyles, "houmforts" (temples). I haven't had the chance to decorate one yet, I would have been very happy to do that. Decorating them is my real goal. Maybe in the future..." Jorélus JOSEPH, GRANDJEAN Michèle, Artistes en Haïti, cent parmi d'autres, p76. Born in Léogâne on December 8, 1939, to a farmer father and a seamstress and hairdresser mother, Jorelus Joseph was born in Léogâne. He lived in the countryside until the end of primary school, then went to Port-au-Prince in 1958 to learn the trade of pastry chef. Following his apprenticeship, he worked as a pastry chef in a restaurant in Pétion-ville. In the meantime, he was employed by the Port-au-Prince Art Center to package works. Stimulated by the artistic atmosphere of the place, he began painting at home on Saturdays and Sundays in 1989, at the age of 50, and then decided to present his works at the Art Center. Director Francine Murat saw in his painting a new path to popular art, different from the style of the beginnings of this movement. Jorélus Joseph's main source of inspiration is voodoo. His painting, both spontaneous and daring, shows his vision of the world through intriguing characters inspired by ritual scenes and the voodoo pantheon (loa, hougan, mambo), myths and legends (knights and kings) and biblical characters. His universe is also populated by many animals: birds, cows, horses, goats. The subjects and their settings are formed by a dense set of colored touches. The artist's technique echoes the pointillism movement of the 1880s in Europe, which consisted of the juxtaposition of small touches of paint. Calling his technique "dots-tasks", the artist superimposes several touches of different colors on a background, creating an image with vibrant shapes and colors. Jorélus Joseph's style remains unique in its simplified treatment of subjects and its choice of very bright and vivid colors. Jorélus Joseph's first solo exhibition took place in 1991 at the Ateliers Jérôme in Port-au-Prince, in a duo with the artist Ronald Mevs with whom he worked in the studio from 1970 and who collects his paintings. In October 1996, he was selected with four other Haitian artists to participate in the 3rd Biennial of Visual Arts of the Caribbean and Central America which took place at the Museum of Modern Art of the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo. He received, with the painter Frantz Zéphirin, the gold medal for his work "Three Characters". Jorélus Joseph died in Léogane in 2009 at the age of 70.