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1936 Croix-des-Bouquests, Haiti - 2008. Known for: Vivid color bird, still life and landscape painting.
A Haitian artist known for brightly colored images of birds, animals, landscapes and still life, Gesner Armand began painting seriously when he was fourteen years old and was enrolled at the Haitian... Read full biography
A Haitian artist known for brightly colored images of birds, animals, landscapes and still life, Gesner Armand began painting seriously when he was fourteen years old and was enrolled at the Haitian Art Center. His primary teachers were watercolorists Maurice Borno and Pierre Monosiet. When he was... Read full biography
A Haitian artist known for brightly colored images of birds, animals, landscapes and still life, Gesner Armand began painting seriously when he was fourteen years old and was enrolled at the Haitian Art Center. His primary teachers were watercolorists Maurice Borno and Pierre Monosiet. When he was age 20, he turned from watercolor painting to oil. The next year, 1957, he went to Mexico where he studied ceramics and sculpture and spent much time exploring prominent Mexican painters. Four years... Read full biography
A Haitian artist known for brightly colored images of birds, animals, landscapes and still life, Gesner Armand began painting seriously when he was fourteen years old and was enrolled at the Haitian Art Center. His primary teachers were watercolorists Maurice Borno and Pierre Monosiet. When he was age 20, he turned from watercolor painting to oil. The next year, 1957, he went to Mexico where he studied ceramics and sculpture and spent much time exploring prominent Mexican painters. Four years later, Armand Gesner returned briefly to Haiti and then went to Paris, having earned a scholarship to paint in Paris from the French government. In Paris, where he remained for the next two years, he exhibited with other Haitian artists including... Read full biography
A Haitian artist known for brightly colored images of birds, animals, landscapes and still life, Gesner Armand began painting seriously when he was fourteen years old and was enrolled at the Haitian Art Center. His primary teachers were watercolorists Maurice Borno and Pierre Monosiet. When he was age 20, he turned from watercolor painting to oil. The next year, 1957, he went to Mexico where he studied ceramics and sculpture and spent much time exploring prominent Mexican painters. Four years later, Armand Gesner returned briefly to Haiti and then went to Paris, having earned a scholarship to paint in Paris from the French government. In Paris, where he remained for the next two years, he exhibited with other Haitian artists including Jacques Gabriel and Hervé Télémaque. Returning to Haiti in 1962, he lived in Croix-des-bouquets an... Read full biography
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Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism, Impressionist
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
- •Tropical Landscape Scenes