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Castera Bazile (November 26, 1923 - 1966)
Castera Bazile
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Castera Bazile |
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Jacmel |
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Haitian |
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November 26, 1923 |
| Death: |
1966 |
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Biography
| Orphaned at an early age and no stranger to deprivation, Bazile was forced to seek work rather than attend school. He moved to Port-au-Prince and found employment as a houseboy with the American Dewitt Peters (1901-66). Witnessing gatherings of artists at the Centre dArt, he soon expressed a desire to try his hand at painting and became a full-time painter in 1945. He began producing compositions of the life he knew, powerful volumetric images with strong contrasts of light and dark and a firm contour.Baziles figures were monumental in their solidity, and his colours were strong; he had a sense of the dramatic and he exploited value contrasts to emphasize it. He painted from a compassionate social conscience, favouring themes such as mother with child, birth and the desperation of poverty. He was a serious person and was described as having little sense of humour. He favoured religious subjects, and although a devout Catholic his knowledge of and sympathy for Vodoun is apparent in his representations of ceremonies. He was chosen in 1950 to paint three important murals for the Ste-Trinite Episcopal Cathedral in Port-au-Prince: the Ascension, the Baptism and Christ Driving the Money-changers from the Temple. They are among the most successful of his oeuvre and have been compared in their classic monumentality to the frescoes of Piero della Francesca. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 42. |
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