Castera bazile biography definition

          Castera Bazile (–) – painter.

        1. Castera Bazile (–) – painter.
        2. This is a memoir of receiving information from an ethnosphere, as Wade Davis called it.
        3. Castera Bazile was born on October 7, in Marbial, a district in the commune of Jacmel.
        4. It corre- sponds more to popular art with different values from Rigaud Benoit's or Castera.
        5. Born in Jacmel, Haiti.

          6. Castera Bazile was born on October 7, in Marbial, a district in the commune of Jacmel..

          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