Chapter Notes — Where Art Is Joy (Rodman, 1988) Parent note: rodman where art is joy

Chapter Notes — Where Art Is Joy (Rodman, 1988) Parent note: rodman where art is joy Introduction: The Joy of Art (pp. 7–20) The Founding Moment (1943–44) DeWitt Peters opens the Centre d'Art, port au prince, wartime 1943–44. Cast of original artists present at the creation: Hector Hyppolite: a houngan from St.-Marc who had been painting flowers with chicken-feather brushes on bar doors in Mont Rouis Philomé Obin: trained but essentially self-taught; already painting historical scenes of the American marines occupation Rigaud Benoit: so skeptical of American appreciation he submitted his first pictures under an assumed name Castera Bazile: Peters's house boy from jacmel, "turning his compassionate painter's eye for the first time on the miseries and glories of peasant existence" Luce Turnier: young woman of the educated elite, initially bemused, then astonished Rodman became co-director in 1947 and convinced Peters that the artists were ready to move to wall-scale public murals.