{"id":464,"date":"2011-01-21T18:55:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T22:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/?p=464"},"modified":"2011-01-21T18:56:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T22:56:17","slug":"artist-spotlight-evans-lumarc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/2011\/01\/artist-spotlight-evans-lumarc\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Spotlight: Evans Lumarc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/files\/2011\/01\/foi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-465\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/files\/2011\/01\/foi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/files\/2011\/01\/foi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/files\/2011\/01\/foi-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><em>La Foi en Dieu<\/em>, Evans Lumarc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first exposure Evans Lumarc had to art was through his father, a wood sculptor.\u00a0 Lumarc learned the trade as he grew up, following his father\u2019s example.\u00a0 At 15, though, he began painting for the first time and never looked back.\u00a0 After graduating from school Lumarc earned a living as a driver, eventually saving enough money to attend a private art school for eight years.\u00a0 It was there that Lumarc learned fundamental technique for landscape and miniature painting, and developed his distinct artistic style.\u00a0 Now, Lumarc tends to paint busy market scenes, crowded with Haitians buying and selling fruits, vegetables, and crafts.\u00a0 His paintings often feature Tap-Taps, colorful Haitian mass-transit cabs\u2014perhaps a reminder to Lumarc of his days as a driver.<\/p>\n<p>A prolific artist, Lumarc generally turns out about four paintings per month.\u00a0 His paintings are popular in contemporary Haitian and French galleries and art markets.\u00a0 Today Lumarc lives in Port-au-Prince with his two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Foi en Dieu, Evans Lumarc The first exposure Evans Lumarc had to art was through his father, a wood sculptor.\u00a0 Lumarc learned the trade as he grew up, following his father\u2019s example.\u00a0 At 15, though, he began painting for the first time and never looked back.\u00a0 After graduating from school Lumarc earned a living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}