Artist and Painting

Hyppolite Hector
Was born in 1889. Deceased. It has been the discoveries of Hyppolite and Philome Obin that had opened Dewitt Peters’ eyes to the possibilities of a popular srt movement in Haiti; that in turn prompted the opening of the Centre d’Art. Hyppolite the mystic and Obin the descriptive, were poles apart and they had been painting for twenty-five years before the Centre d’Art opened. Hyppolite was a fulltime voodoo priest, as was his father. His works caused a sensation at the UNESCO exhibit in Paris in 1947. “His technique was never wholly adequate to translating his visions into effective plastic images, and as his life as a medium gave way to his life as an artist, he tended deliberately to forsake the central content of voodoo for the peripheral subject matter of folklore – zombies and black magic, which seemed to offer material for a freer exercise of his fantastic imagination.” [Rodman, Haiti Black Republic, pp. 96.] Picture: Size 20×24 – ID 443