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Click here to get back to the Drum Art pageThe Drum Art pieces shown in Art-ickles are made upon reception of the orders. Please allow 2 to 6 weeks before we can ship your order. Haitian Steel Sculptures, Oil Drum ArtIn 1953, DeWitt Peters, the American schoolteacher and watercolorist who is generally credited with giving life to the modern Haitian Art movement, parked his car alongside the cemetery in Croix-des-Bouquets, a small town off the Cap Haitian road. He noticed some elaborate iron crosses that decorated the graves, and after inquiring about them, was led to the house of Georges Liautaud, a blacksmith and mechanic. With Peters' encouragement Liautaud forged more crosses and one day made the transition to steel drums, creating representations of Haitian voodoo gods and goddesses by flattening the drums and cutting out the images with hammer and chisel. Soon he took on apprentices who became internationally known "bosmetals" in their own right. His first helpers were Serge Jolimeau, Gabriel Bien-Aimé and the Louisjuste brothers. Today the Noailles district of Croix-des-Bouquets resonates with the wham of hammer on chisel on steel sheet and the tradition of the master Liautaud is carried on by a new generation of "dwoum" artists including John Sylvestre, Preslet Soulouque (the Hougan voodoo priest of Croix-des-Bouquets) with his brother Jonas, the very industrious and talented Winston Cajuste and all those shown below. Please find below the pictures of some of the sculptors whose work are displayed in Art-ickles. Click on their names to view their work.
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