Ernst Louizor

Ernst Louizor showed a talent for drawing early in childhood. He joined the Academy of Fine Arts, created in the 1950s and studied composition and perspective with a well-known Haitian artist, George Ramponeau. Over time, Louizor chose to express himself in a different style from his contemporaries and is often described as an impressionist painter. As the artists who started this movement in the later part of the 19^th century, Louizor paints life around him, as he sees it, not always perfect or beautiful but true to life. He also often paints outdoors so he can observe and record his surroundings. This is well represented in “Marine,” where the artist makes us feel the life of a Haitian seaport, with its multitude of boats with large sails dwarfing the sailors and passengers, quietly reminiscent of the Haitian boat people’s plight. He used the techniques also favored by the impressionist movement, such as blended colors, to render the overcast sky and the troubled sea. Ernst Louizor was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1938. His work has been exhibited around the world, in Haiti, Europe, Japan and the USA.

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