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Entranced by the paintings of the unconventional artist Vincent Van Gogh, for whom her mother is working as a housekeeper, Claudine is saddened when the townspeople turn against him.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 2-4A year in the life of van Gogh is seen through the eyes and thoughts of a fictional girl. Her mother is the painter's charwoman, a person actually mentioned in one of his letters. Claudine, while helping clean the Yellow House in Arles, observes the artist during one of his periods of frantic creativity. She sees him paint the mistral wind and the sun. She observes him quarreling with his friend Gauguin, hears how he sliced his ear in anger, and sadly stands by as he is forced out of town. Unlike the townspeople, Claudine loves van Gogh's paintings. She sees the colors he finds in the trees, views swirling stars in the sky, and responds to the intense yellows of his sunflowers. When she bids him farewell, he gives her a small painting, because she has learned to see the world as he does. Dionetti's writing is sensitive and lyrical, full of color and feeling. The text is imposed on Hawkes's thick, textured, brightly colored oil paintings that fill every page. The heavy brush strokes; flat, impressionistic figures; and interesting changes in perspective underscore the story's descriptions and evocation of art. The child's-eye view is an effective way to introduce a bit of art history, and the most tragic details of van Gogh's tempestuous life are effectively avoided in favor of an emphasis on his artistic vision.Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Claudine, the daughter of Vincent van Gogh's charwoman, is the only person in Arles who finds the artist and his work exciting rather than threatening. She dreams of becoming an artist herself, and, as represented by Hawkes's (The Librarian Who Measured the Earth) vibrant settings, she begins to see through her hero's eyes: "the trees no longer looked green to her, but gold and purple and orange and blue, and their branches danced like flames." Claudine notes van Gogh's compulsive work habits and volatility, and also witnesses Gauguin's tumultuous visit and the artist's depression following the ear-mutilation episode. But Claudine remains enchanted by his gifts and overcomes her meekness to defend Arles's bête noire, praising his work in full view of the hostile townspeople. Van Gogh, however, remains a shadowy, distant figure, and the story is not likely to carry much weight with those not already familiar with van Gogh. Hawkes demonstrates great versatility: his lush, charismatic oil illustrations evoke by turns the intensity of van Gogh's paintings, the relative tranquility of a more conventional vision and the dark period of van Gogh's depression. While Claudine's love of art and righteous loyalty can seem emotionally airbrushed, Dionetti (Coal Mine Peaches) and Hawkes successfully demonstrate the power of art to transform vision. Ages 6-10. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
In Arles, France, Claudine helps her mother (a charwoman) clean the house of Vincent van Gogh. While the townspeople are afraid of 'Fou Roux' (Redheaded Fool), Claudine is fascinated by his artwork and becomes inspired to start drawing. Rising above the glut of child-meets-artist picture books, the strong, touching story is illustrated with expressive, painterly illustrations. From HORN BOOK 1996, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Dionetti tells ``A Story of Vincent van Gogh,'' viewing the familiar story of the painter through the eyes of his real charwoman's fictional youngest daughter, Claudine. The townspeople call him Fou Roux, the crazy redhead. He paints outdoors in the heat of the day, by candlelight at night, even in the wild wind called the mistral. Claudine observes or learns of now-famous events: Gauguin's visit, their quarrel, and van Gogh's cutting of his ear. She tries to see the world through van Gogh's eyes, finding purple in the trees and flames in their branches. Hawkes's oil paintings capture the beautiful light of southern France that ensorcelled van Gogh, and echo his visions of sunflowers, a bright table, a starry night. Children will come away with an understanding that art is a different way of seeing, that name-calling always hurts, and that kindness may be rewarded--but those messages are laid out with a hand that is occasionally heavy. (Picture book. 6-10)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 1^-4. Like Barbara Nichol's Beethoven Lives Upstairs (1994), this picture book is about a great artist's daily life, told from the viewpoint of a child who knows him. Dionetti tells the story of van Gogh's last troubled years in Arles, France, through the eyes of his housekeeper's daughter Claudine, who helps her mother and is inspired by the paintings she sees. When the townspeople deride the artist for his strangeness and eventually drive him out, Claudine defends him. Hawkes' double-spread oil paintings capture the blazing colors and whirling images of van Gogh's world without simplistic imitation. Like Claudine, we glimpse the canvases of sunflowers, boots, cypresses, and branches that dance like flames. But more than that, we see how the artist has made Claudine look beyond the ordinary to "the heart of a sunflower, brave and bold and filled with fire." A moving introduction to van Gogh and his paintings "thick and wild." --Hazel Rochman