{"id":168,"date":"2015-07-01T08:41:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T12:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2017-12-12T12:02:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:02:41","slug":"michellafleur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/commissions\/michellafleur\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Lafleur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michel Lafleur<\/h1>
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The new<\/em> Manou Studio in Port-au-Prince, painted by Michel Lafleur, featuring a portrait of Rutshelle Guillaume<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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Michel Lafleur began his career as an apprentice to a decorator of Tap-Taps, the ornately painted, striped and muralized pickup trucks that serve as public transportation all throughout Haiti. Raised in the neighborhoods around downtown Port-au-Prince, a district of auto-body shops, mechanics, used tire dealers and\u00a0artisans, he is responsible for decorating many of the most spectacular barbershops in the area of Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines, better known simply as the “Grand Rue.” Lafleur\u00a0is associated with Atis Rezistans<\/em>, the\u00a0collaborative of Grand Rue sculptors who host Port-au-Prince’s “Ghetto Biennale” and he has brought his painterly skills to numerous\u00a0collaborations with international artists.<\/span><\/p>\n

To order a portrait by Michel Lafleur please check the Commissions<\/a> page for details and contact information.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Work\u00a0from the atelier of Michel Lafleur.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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Lafleur holds a photo of his\u00a0self-portrait, originally painted on a Grand Rue area barbershop \/ A Lafleur commission for a hair salon in Jeremie \/ Usher on a Jacmel\u00a0shop<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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An environmental anthropologist who divides her time between New Jersey and Newfoundland asked Michel to create this painting as an eightieth birthday present for her man.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Commissioned by the partner of a\u00a0Vienna Producer-Director whose original program was “Tribe Vibes” Radio.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Lafleur in his Port-au-Prince atelier at work on his\u00a0portrait of a\u00a0Brooklyn filmmaker. The client requested the inclusion of the barber’s tools of the trade in the background.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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This client \u00a0requested the addition of text reading, in Haitian kreyol, “You need a haircut.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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More commissioned work by Michel Lafleur.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions\/827"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amazingbarbershop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}