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FRAGMENT OF NEW PERSPECTIVE OF HAITIAN ART Julio Desmont
My art is my encounter: encounter with God, with the universe between life and death between hate and love between lie and truth between light and shadow between the seen and the unseen between the known and the unknown between the manifest and the un-manifest My art is my point, my COMPLETE ENCOUNTER!!! Julio Desmont
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 Dove136cm 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 Sky20”X24”                              acrylic mixed media on canvas
Silver Face17”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 Desmont Born 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, GerogiaOkeeffe. 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 EcoleNationale Des Beaux Arts (ENARTS) in Port au Prince to study fine arts.He studied with Haitian artist and masters  ValcinII, DieudonneCedor, Ludovic Booz, Jean Claude Garoute (tiga), Harold Alfonse and mentored by Dr. Michel PhillipeLherebours 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, EcoleNationale des Arts, Haiti, 2003 - Expo Liberte, EcoleNationale 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

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