B. 1901
D. 1982
Leo Basso was a self-taught artist, painting in a naive style depicting the life of rural Trinidad and Tobago.
His paintings show the ethnic diversity of the country and scenes from the everyday life of its inhabitants and are highly imaginative.
Leo Basso was influenced by artist Pierre LeLong. He is a foundation member and first vice-president of the Trinidad Art Society. His works were shown regularly in exhibitions here. He has also exhinited in the USA, UK and the Caribbean.
Basso was a sensitive genre painter who worked in a primitive style- indeed he might be considered a leader in this school. Even at an advanced age, Basso vividly created pictures with the realism of historical events as he recalled them.
