Amos Blain: a young painter with great talent
Favorite Quote: "Je voulais peindre
les choses comme on les pense, pas comme on les voit"
I wanted to depict objects not as we see them, but as we imagine
them - Pablo Picasso.
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Amos Blain: Short Bio
Age: 22 Born: Port-au-Prince
Resides: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Education: High School: Lycée Firmin;
Milestones: Learned to paint by imitating his
brother Fritzner Blain
Other: Won Second prize at a national contest
organized by The ministry of Culture in conjunction
with the FAO
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 At
22, Amos Blain is a fairly young painter, yet he already has
accomplished more than 150 works.. Amos learned to paint as
a child by emulating his brother Fritzner Blain. As he became
more proficient, he would develop at least 3 styles or personalities
that are as distinct in the colors used as in the topics portrayed.
In his painting "Aube - Dawn"
on top for example, he adopts sharp angles and circles with
tones of siennas, ambers, reds and blues. In the works using
that style detail is not as important as the impression he
is trying to achieve. An impressions of sound, of singing,
of vibration. Amos uses thats style successfully to depict
birds, and in his "chant" (songs) series
(See Gallery1)
In the work at right called "oeil
pleurant", on the other hand, he utilizes pictograms,
simple bold stroked etchings or monochromatic imprints on
a plain but rough background. This is how Amos paints pain,
fear, violence and terror.
Finally at left, Amos reverts
to semi-realism in depicting  a
landscape. He uses bright, natural colors and smooth strokes.
The scenes portrayed in that style are calm, gentle, with
slow movement and lazy gentle sunlight. He uses a variant
of that style in conjunction with elements from the geometric
style above in his depictions of family scenes as well, although
there, the realism is sharper, the canvas is well detailed,
almost in a still-life fashion, and the subject is very close
to the eyes.
That exuberance of styles and
techniques can be atributed to his admiration the art of his
brother, of Haitian master Lionel Laurenceau and of Picasso.
Part of that inevitably stems from his process of maturization
as an artist. But more than anything, this variety of styles
and his success at achieving that variety denote a wealth
of talent, inspiration and a keen sense of how to best use
the medium to represent the idea.
Let us sample a few of Amos' work in the gallery.
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