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Salzburg (July 24-Aug. 30) continues to concentrate on its very own Mozart, but its big news this year is the world premiere of German Composer Werner Egk's opera Irish Legend. Other items: new sets for Mozart's Magic Flute by brilliant Austrian Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, star-led concerts by the Vienna Philharmonic...
Without Their Masks. Painter Ray decided that he was equipped with an inner eye early in his career in Vienna, where he made his reputation by painting his , subjects "without their masks." His highly expressionistic portraits won him the praise of famed Vienna Painter Oskar Kokoschka and the plaudits of Vienna art critics...
Levine went right on wagging and jabbing his brush at social ills. Meanwhile, he made himself a master of expressionist techniques, mingling hot and cold colors as delightfully as Kokoschka, and squeezing and stretching figures as boldly as Soutine. Last year he began work on a huge canvas of a gangster funeral, which was frankly meant to spotlight political corruption of the big cities. Among the mourners he put "two widows, one very, very shapely," and "the chief of police, come to pay his last respects-a face at once porcine and acute...
Grass for Life. If Kokoschka's students at Salzburg carry away one-tenth of his fiery individualism, he will be happy. This winter he will stay in Switzerland to work on a huge (52½ ft. by 10 ft.) painting of the battle of Thermopylae ("against barbarism, against uniformity") for the University of Hamburg. In the spring he will go to India to paint, and eventually, when he tires of travel, wander back to his London apartment. He has no studio; he likes to paint landscapes out in the open air, portraits at the subject's home...
...Kokoschka paints slowly these days, sometimes only two oils a year. There is never enough for a show, because his admirers buy them immediately for prices up to $3,000. But the high prices don't seem to interest Kokoschka. "With me," he says, "these are not wares. They are my life. A blade of grass is more interesting than the president of a republic if you put your heart into...