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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Oral Traditions - Douens? in Sangre Grande

This unusual wall painting is situated in Sangre Grande, Trinidad. The paintings of the three short tick individuals with large straw hats look like the folklore character called Douens. And rather than overlooking your front garden, these three Spanish inhabitants are overlooking a village that is presumably Sangre Grande.

Douens lurk on the fringes of your garden and call out to your unattended children to come out and play. Douen are one of the many colourful yet frightening folklore characters from Trinidad and Tobago and are the result of children who have died before they have been baptized.

Douen have a distinguishing deformity as their feet are backwards. This is to cover their tracks as they lure children into the forest and get them lost. These stocky creatures are faceless with the exception of having a mouth to eat their favourite food, land crab.

Oral traditions in folklore are used to scare children and to place some order of obedience

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: hello
this is a reproduction of a very popular and a classic oil painting from venezuela
title los 3 comisarios -the three sheriff- from hector poleo.
Héctor Poleo, 1918-1989
Tres comisarios, 1942
Oleo sobre tela
90 x 70 cm
national art gallerie caracas

you can find it here

http://www.wtfe.com/gan/coleccion/sigloxx.html; 10:17 PM

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In 2008, he began a series of self studies called Feinin which incorporated digital superpositions of artists who have left a mark in art history by using the internet as the core of reference. He also produced parodies relating to anthropological studies of Trinidad and Tobago, for example, folklore or observations of the society via class and stereotypes

The work then expanded by actually creating dimensional replicas, capturing a map over the subjects to explore the underling subconscious in the form of art. This aided the ability to analyze art by producing art parodies to understand the meaning behind it. No money was spent or assistance in producing these compositions from common items found in his home, a chair, a mirror, or old tyre.

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