Rigaud benoit haitian artists
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Collection: Rigaud Benoit (Haitian, 1911-1986)
Rigaud Benoit had become, well before his death, one of the three or four most highly prized Haitian artists. He was an early member of the Haitian art movement known as Naive Art, so-called because of its members' limited formal training. The movement was first recognized and promoted by the Centre d'Art, founded in 1944 by the American Dewitt Peters. He was one of the few artists asked to decorate the interior of the Cathedral of Sainte Trinité. Benoit's later work was surrealist, though he continued to produce Haitian life scenes—narrative scenes—until his death. Benoit married the daughter of his friend Hector Hyppolite, the first Haitian artist to win international recognition and still the most acclaimed in international art circles. Benoit's work is characterized by precise draftsmanship, muted colors, and often—in his narrative paintings—a sense of humor. His surrealist paintings mostly depict vodou scenes or deities. Please scroll down to browse his arts!
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Rigaud Benoit
Rigaud Benoit was a taxi driver when he first visited le Centre d’Art and was encouraged to start painting by DeWitt Peters after showing him a number of small paintings.
His earlier works were famed for his acute observations of Haitian social mores through his depictions of fractious guests at social events such as wedding ceremonies. Benoit married Hector Hyppolite’s daughter, Herminthe, who supported his practice by taking in washing in their neighbourhood just off the Grand Rue. In 1947 Benoit was one of the artists chosen to create work for the mural project in the Episcopal Cathedral of Sainte Trinité in Port-au-Prince. In the 1970s Benoit shifted his style and focus and his paintings became less realist and more surreal depicting solitary figures, often mutating between human and botanic forms, in fanciful landscapes.
His work is included in the permanent collections of the Musée d’Art Haitien du Collège Saint Pierre in Port-au-Prince, the Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, and the Waterloo Museum of Art in Iowa.