Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story on a Japanese businessman. TIME asked the celebrated Japanese artist Nampu Katayama to paint the portrait. An academy "immortal" at 74, Katayama had never done a commission for a foreign publication before. The negotiations, at his home in a bamboo grove on the outskirts of Tokyo, were delicate and cordial, though his lively wife broke in at one point: "Don't you ever believe him when he says he can meet your deadline. For one portrait he was behind for one whole year." Katayama delivered on time, wearing a pleased and mischievous smile...
...paint, Katayama kneels in Japanese style, with his feet tucked under, uses an ink of rock pigment, and brushes of wool or badger hair. It was the eyes of Industrialist Matsushita that most fascinated the artist, who found them at once serene and alert. "Eyes are the mirror of every human." says Katayama...
...House detail came a partial explanation of Sunday Painter Dwight Eisenhower's striking success at capturing likenesses in his portraits. Confessed ex-Private Ray Seide. now art director of a Manhattan ad agency, in an Esquire article: "When we received the photograph or illustration [on which the Eisenhower painting was to be based], I would put it into a projector. If the machine didn't throw an image large enough for the size of the canvas the President wanted, I would draw the subject larger. Then I would outline in charcoal on the canvas the subject the President...
...catch the most fleeting expression, can render color in hues no longer dishonestly brilliant, and can see things in virtual darkness? And why, if he must "get back to the image.'' does he not at least employ the gains of imagination and emotion brought to painting by impressionism, surrealism and abstraction? A picture called The Window Box, on display at Manhattan's Maynard Walker Gallery last week, gives persuasive answers to both questions. In it is a little girl, perhaps sent upstairs for an hour of penance, who dimly but fearfully perceives the end of her innocence...
...surrealists came across the Atlantic. In what turned out, as Biographer Ethel Schwabacher shows, to be a search for an expression of his own, Gorky borrowed from Picasso, Miró and Matta. He went from figurative to abstract and then added surrealism. Sometimes he built up his paint until his canvas seemed like sculptured relief. Sometimes he kept the paint thin as film and his canvas almost devoid of color...