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...UNCLE WILLIE by Gwen Everett (Rizzoli; $13.95). One magic summer, Li'l Sis' Uncle Willie -- a painter en route to New York CityQstops off in the South. Through his eyes the child sees a new world of colors and culture. Uncle Willie was William Johnson, a real African-American artist, and this biography artfully employs his work to enlighten as it entertains...
...Virginia Spate (Rizzoli; $65). Paul Cezanne put down his fellow painter: "Monet is only an eye." Perhaps, but with that organ the great Impressionist analyzed the effects of sunlight on cathedrals and haystacks and water lilies -- and altered our perceptions forever. A scholarly appreciation reveals...
...melodramatic effects like lopping off his ear. In such films as Loulou and A Nos Amours, Pialat has sullenly railed against the strictures of French bourgeois life. In Van Gogh, he has found a kindred spirit; for both, artistic compromise is a crime against humanity. Jacques Dutronc plays the painter as a | troubled man (but not a madman) with a mission, a sort of nerd for art. Full of graceful compositions and expansive conversation, Van Gogh is an eyeful. And an earful...
...APPRENTICE PAINTER HONES his rough craft by sketching a bowl of fruit or a reclining nude. The would-be novelist pulls a diary from her dresser and changes the names. But ambitious young filmmakers, with a fondness for old genres and an eye to the box office, take tours of the underworld. When in doubt, go with the gangsters. Not every first-time director can make Citizen Kane; the budget, let alone the vision, would be out of reach. But a Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese's 1973 breakthrough film about a brotherhood of toughs in Manhattan's Little Italy...
EVERYTHING ABOUT MEXICAN PAINTER Frida Kahlo was high drama. In pain all her life after a streetcar accident, she battled drugs and despair, had a tumultuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and conducted affairs with women and men, including Leon Trotsky. FRIDA, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, adds to her stature as cult figurine. Mexican musical motifs blend with spoken monologues and lyrical, character-defining songs, while masks and puppets recreate the magic realism of her paintings. In the title role, Helen Schneider conveys the radiance and explosive fury of the woman whose...