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Jules Ernest PAUL : French Painter of Haitian Origin. JErnestPAUL.jpg I opted to redraw here my artistic route. It was in 1971 that the artistic universe opened to me the door to the dance. I was known under the name of TI NEST POP. I did not delay becoming the Haitian Pop dancer the most known in the Republic of Haiti. I passed from the Football to the dance, from the dance to the Painting. In 1976, I embraced the career of artist-painter. Having been very early abandoned by my professor of drawing and painting, I pursued only the road by having Murat BRIERE as Councillor. MURAT BRIERE was not only a Sculptor and Painter; he was a man of heart, respectful, psychologist. Summer evening he crossed to see a great painter in the studio of which I painted my first cloth. Generally, the first cloth of a painter is not always saleable. I remember the glance of boss, when he looked at me painting. He asked his friend: This young painter, what is his name? He answered him: Jules Ernest PAUL. And Murat started again and said: Jules-Ernest PAUL; there is a mad light in your painting, a sentence that I took for a compliment, but it wasn't the case! It meant that light came from here and there, because I had not yet understood the observation of shadow and light. He adds, it is not bad for a beginner. I buy it. So since 1976 (from my first cloth) to1980, this man bought my clothes that he resold in his gallery. I may say that I did not know the disappointment of the unsold paintings. Even though, today, the market of the art is not any more what it was formerly because of the invasion of the retorts of art sold as potatoes in the Supermarkets. I stopped supplying him pictures in 1980 to make the experience of the market of the art without any difficulty, until 1983. Today, speak about Ph. OBIN, of W. BIGAUD without speaking about Murat BRIERRE, it is to omit energetically the main lines of the historic authenticity of the Haitian Art and to put obstacle to the memory of the dead artists. (Murat BRIERE was one of the artists of the Centre of Haitian Art, he often spoke well of DE WITT PETERS the Founder of the Centre.) He had to know him very well to speak about him with so much interest and gratitude. Did not Jules Ernest PAUL become a self-taught painter?