[CORBETTLIST] 43681: Hermantin: Le Centre D'Art, Celebrating 70th Anniversary

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Subject:  Le Centre D'Art, Celebrating 70th Anniversary
From:  "Leonie Hermantin" <lhermantin@xxxxxxxxx>


*Le Centre D’Art*

 *Cradle of Haitian Art*

*1944-2014*

*Celebrating 70 years of Preservation, Creation and Promotion of Haitian
Artistic Expression*



*“One cannot build a city, a country in a day.  To do so requires the
contribution of many, each creating beauty in the space they occupy”
Francine Murat, Le Centre D’Art Director*

*Created in 1944 under the leadership of American watercolorist DeWitt
Peters, Le Centre D’Art, officially recognized in 1947, played a critical
role in the history of Haitian visual art. *

*Both a gallery and a learning space, Le Centre D’Art is a forum for a
unique mix of people in Haiti: intellectuals, art critics, artisans and
world-renowned visitors. This incubator of the arts has fostered the
emergence of several generations of famous artists: Hector Hyppolite,
Rigaud Benoit, Georges Liautaud, and Edouard Duval-Carié, to name a few.
 Le Centre D’Art is credited for the emergence in Haiti the "naif" (or
primitive) art movement on the international art scene.*

*Le Centre D’Art was also responsible for the creation of the Haitian Art
Museum of the College of St. Pierre, and for the murals of the Episcopalian
Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.*

*Early on Le Centre D’Art created a market for Haitian Art. International
institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York sought out Le
Centre D’Art in their search for Haitian painters. Le Centre D’Art is also
responsible for the creation of the first Haitian visual arts magazine,
"STUDIO No. 3".*

*In 1965, Francine Murat took over from DeWitt Peters and skillfully
continued and built upon the founder’s vision for the center. She kept the
center’s spirit alive and managed to maintain its prestige until its
collapse on January 10th, 2010.   Francine Murat died in February 2010 at
the age of 91.*


-- 
Leonie M. Hermantin

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