{"id":377,"date":"2020-01-30T16:48:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizensforconservationtt.org\/home\/?post_type=sites&p=377"},"modified":"2020-01-31T11:05:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:05:22","slug":"era-of-political-independence","status":"publish","type":"sites","link":"https:\/\/citizensforconservationtt.org\/home\/sites\/era-of-political-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Era of Political Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlisle Chang’s Inherent Nobility of Man, designed for Trinidad’s new Piarco International Airport in 1962, his mural Conquerabia for the new Port of Spain City Hall and Cosmic Event for the facade for the new Textel building in Port of Spain, established him as Trinidad and Tobago’s leading national artist of the time. The later destruction of Inherent Nobility of Man to make way for the extension of the Airport buildings in 1977, coincided with the end of Chang’s painting career.<\/p>\n

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The Inherent Nobility of Man | 1962 | Carlisle Chang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Ou (Edwin) Hing Wan (b.1932 d.1976) was paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair from the age of 19. Yet, with only the partial use of his right hand he was able to produce some of Trinidad and Tobago’s finest watercolours. Hing Wan, encouraged by Sybil Atteck and Noel Vaucrosson (b.1935 d.1996), first exhibited at the Trinidad Art Society’s exhibition of 1951. In 1975 he mounted his only one man exhibition at the National Museum and Art Gallery.<\/p>\n

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River Scene | 1975 | Edwin “Ou” Hing Wan | Watercolour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Membership to the Trinidad Art Society, up until the late 1950’s, had been considered to be exclusive, due in part to the support and patronage of those who represented the colonial administration. In 1960 however, after the Backyard Exhibition in Argyll Lane in Lower Laventille, showing the work of, among others, Pat Chu Foon.<\/p>\n

The introduction of monumental sculpture into mainstream art in Trinidad and Tobago was the work of Pat Chu Foon. He executed several public sculptures, among them Gandhi in Kew Place (1969); Spirit of Hope (1971); Tribute to the Steelband Movement in Tamarind Square, Port of Spain (1972) and Mother and Child at the Mount Hope Hospital (1980).<\/p>\n

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