O malarstwie vodou na Haiti
On Vodou Paintings in Haiti

Summary/Abstract: The article reveals the transcultural dimension of vodou painting in Haiti as a tangible example of the syncretism of cultures and religions in the New World, whose beginnings go back to slavery. The first part discusses the social origin of the titular painting connected with the vodou cult and rites as well as its first institutional foundation – Centre d’Art established in 1944 in Port-au-Prince and the outright explosion of works by naive painters inspired by Afro-Christian symbolic and references to the world of pre-Columbian Indians. The second part shows the formal evolution and poly-functionality of vodou painting upon the example of artists originating from the Saint-Soleil group created in the 1970s. Selected iconography makes it possible to capture new thematic-formal quests, which evade purely religious imagery. More, they demonstrate how ludic features and the subversion potential immanent for the vodou cosmogony are translated into a painter’s individual language decisive for his personal interpretation of the sacrum.

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