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...Dante's The Divine Comedy, and St. Augustine in his cell, a fresco for Florence's Ognissanti church later transposed to canvas. It will go to Florence's Palazzo Strozzi (March 10-July 11) after the Paris run. The scion of a wealthy Montpellier family, the ebullient young Impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille shared his ateliers and his allowance with Monet and Renoir and painted with Sisley (while Renoir painted him in the act). His 1870 The Condamine Street Atelier portrayed his friends Manet, Monet, Maitre, Renoir and writer Emile Zola while his own tall, lanky figure...
Applying his aesthetic eye and artistic temperament, which he developed from his painter mother, Phelan also pays attention to how lighting enhances his home environment. He used to have a lighted topiary for the fireplace that “died tragically,” but maintains a pleasant atmosphere with lamps. “At night I have soft lights and it’s cozy like a bistro...
...hero of Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude (Doubleday; 511 pages) is smart, scrawny, sensitive Dylan Ebdus. He's 5 when his parents move to a hard-luck black and Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mom is a hippie, his dad a painter who spends his days on an incomprehensible, unfinishable masterpiece. Soon Mingus Rude moves in down the block. His father Barrett is a once famous soul singer--he fronted the fictional Subtle Distinctions--now in drastic, drug-addicted decline (Barrett owes more than a little to Marvin Gaye). The boys become friends--Mingus the leader, Dylan...
...DIED. Sir Terry Frost, 87, durable painter of bright, geometric abstracts; in Newlyn, Cornwall. The untrained Frost first took up painting as a World War II prisoner of war after the invasion of Crete and eventually became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A friend described him to the bbc as "a very noisy person, who said the secret to long life was champagne and Guinness...
...done it by scripting quirky, multidimensional characters such as the plucky Minami (Tomoko Yamaguchi), who rebuilt her life after her fianc? left her waiting at the shrine in Long Vacation, and Tell Me You Love Me's indefatigable Hiroko (Takako Tokiwa), who fell in love with a deaf painter...