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Bazile has become known for his extraordinary use of bold colors.
It had been rumored
that
Bazile, sometime during the 30-year reign of François "Papa Doc”
Duvalier, was arrested because some of the themes in his paintings
irritated
government officials. (Being thrown into jail in Haiti, especially at
that
time, was akin to being thrown into the fires of hell.) After his
release,
he chose to paint only innocuous renditions of fish, fruit, and fruit
trees,
and Biblical depictions, such as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Text by Gladys
Kinoian
Lujan, Class of ’56, Bryant College
