Castera bazile biography books
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Bazile, Castera (Haitian, 1923 – 1966)
"His paintings are instinctive compositions with warm and harmonious hues and the expression of the sincerity typical of Haitians". ~ Gérald Alexis, Haitian Painters.
Castera Bazile was born on October 7, 1923 in Marbial, a district in the commune of Jacmel. He attends the Cochon-gras presbyteral school in Jacmel. A very young orphan, he was raised by his centenary grandmother who instilled in him solid principles as well as respect for work. Eleven-year-old Bazile travels to Port-au-Prince, forced to find work rather than continue his studies. Thus in November 1945, he entered the Art Center as a handyman.
Stimulated by the artistic effervescence of the Art Center, he launched himself into painting in 1947, encouraged by DeWitt Peters who saw in him a great talent. It focuses particularly on themes relating to daily life: maternity, birth or poverty. Bazile develops a great mastery of contrasts and colors, handling the variations of blue, blue-green, yellow with occasional notes of pure vermilion and intense green. His personal style is rapidly moving towards a simplification of forms and a bold distribution of pure color.
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Haitian Expose by Castera Bazile
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The modern movement in Haitian art, often referred to as the Haitian Renaissance, arose in the 1940’s. More precisely it can be dated to May 14th, 1944 (sixty years to the day at this writing), when DeWitt Peters, an American painter then teaching in Haiti opened an art center, Le Centre d’Art, in an old house in the center of Port-au-Prince. The Centre provided exhibition space and art instruction for the full range of Haitian artists - from completely untrained peasant artists to educated artists of the Haitian elite. The first exhibition was of twenty-five trained artists, but increasingly the center drew artists who were completely self-taught and worked in the 'naive' style for which Haitian art was to become known.
The first of the ‘naive’ Haitian artists to bring his work to the Centre was Philomé Obin, who had actually been painting images of Haitian history and life in his home town of Cap Haitien since 1908! Certainly the most celebrated of Haitian artists was the hougan (vodou priest) Hector Hyppolite. He attracted Peters' notice in 1943 for the intriguing paintings on the doors of a roadside bar prophetically named "Ici la Renaissance" in the seaside village of Montrouis. Other notable early members were Rigaud Benoit, Wilson Bigaud, Prefete Duffaut, Micius St