부산대학교 도서관

(b Jacmel, Nov 26, 1923; d Port-au-Prince, 1966). Haitian painter. 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 (1901–1966). Witnessing gatherings of artists at the Centre d’Art, 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. Bazile’s figures were monumental in their solidity, and his colors were strong; he had a sense of the dramatic and he exploited value contrasts to emphasize it. He painted from a compassionate social conscience, favoring 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 humor. He favored 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 ...