Wisler Belizaire: Balancing the contrasts
Favorite Quote: "What you can't achieve
because of talent, you can achieve with perseverance. Up to
the last drop of water you pour on the hardest of stones is
helpful in cutting through it."- Self
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Wisler Belizaire: Short Bio
Age: 30 Born: Port-de-Paix
Resides: Miramar, FL
Education: High School: Lycée de Petion-Ville;
Art School: ENARTS; Business and Management: INAGHEI
Milestones: Started painting in 1994; First Exhibit
in 1995; exhibited at Institut Haitiano-Allemand and
Bible Auditorium as well.
Other: Founding member of Art group: "Haiti,
Couleurs et Styles"
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 Wisler
Belizaire is a self-taught painter. As a child he expressed
a great penchant towards arts and he was encouraged in that
direction. He taught himself how to paint in 1994. A little
bit after, he joined ENARTS, the National Art School located
in Port-au-Prince. He had his first exhibit in 1995. In 1997,
he joined a few ENARTS students in putting together an exhibit
they called Haiti,
Couleurs et Styles. At the end of the exhibit, they decided
that HCS would become a project to showcase Haitian Arts.
Wisler has painted more than a hundred works, has sold more
than a few and has been interviewed by a few magazines in
Haiti since.
According to the artist, his work
is based upon a search for a certain equilibrium
between certain contrasting topics. Thought and spontaneity;
Realism and fiction; dependency and freedom; justice and money;
light and darkness; violence and respect, power and powerlessness...
A number of his works are devoted to this concept of justice.
He carries on in a number of paintings the themes of prisons
in both the direct and figurative sense. The scales of justice
are also prominent in a number of his works and all throughout,
a deep sense of sadness, of the Beyond and of mysticism is
carried through by deep, cold blues, hues, fogs, nebulous
clouds, lights from a distance and from other rooms, and faint
shadows.
Wisler values hard work and tenacity.
The fact that he painted more than a hundred works of obvious
quality is as much an indication of his dedication as a evidence
of talent and inspiration. As to the question of what he would
say to a kid who would want to get into the arts he replied
"Work hard, daily. Learn to know the artists and their
language. Ponder quietly the difficulties you would encounter
in order to overcome them".
The combination of hard work,
passion, talent and the challenge of depicting life's great
contrasts has enabled Wisler Belizaire to produce a cornucopia
of works, of tales even, full of originality, universality
and interest. We invite you to survey a sampling of Wisler
Belizaire's body of works in the gallery.
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questions, please contact us
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