Product Description
Haitian Primitivism Painting, Marassa Twin School Girls by Gerard Fortune, Vintage Voodoo
In following with Vodou's African Roots, twins are held in a sacred light. They are considered to have great magical powers, and the ability to heal. Twins in real life usually are able to manifest different abilities easier than most. It is a natural talent. The Marassa love to eat. They will eat their fill and complain that they are hungry and haven't eaten. Only when completely satisfied will they attend to the people. Along with food, like most children, they love toys. They are terrible when punishing and great care is made not to excite that side of them. Rarely appearing in possession, they act like children when they do make an appearance. They are known to have clairvoyance, the ability to heal, to bestow good luck in general, and the power to double (or triple) anything. They can produce rain at will and many human twins also have these abilities.
Artist: Gérard Fortuné was born in 1925(more or less, read about him in our blog) and started to paint in 1978. He was a houngan, pastry chef, and painter whose art talent flourished.. His work has been internationally exhibited and belongs to the Waterloo Museum of Art's permanent collection in Iowa and the Ramapo College in New Jersey. Gérard passed away on December 8, 2019, in Haiti, but his work still lives on.
21"x20.5"
