Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picasso once brushed aside a criticism that his portrait of Gertrude Stein did not look like her by saying simply: "It will." In Manhattan, Vienna-trained Painter Rudolf Ray, 63, is trying to go Picasso one better. His aim: to arrive at the final "soulscape," the abstract essence of the sitter, by painting a series of eight portraits-one on top of the other. To the uninitiated the soulscapes may look like nothing more than shards of colored glass or a heavy calligraphic scrawl. But to Ray's followers, who include Hindu gurus, Taoist philosophers and Jung disciples...
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...
Suzuki and Zen Buddhism became one. Philosopher Suzuki, on hand to see his portrait for the first time, was not so sure. Said he: "I know nothing of these things. Therefore, I cannot say." Prompted by Painter Ray ("You have said that when you say you don't know, then you know"), Philosopher Suzuki bowed with a smile, politely admitted: "That too can be true...
...SOME painters have all the luck. They get paid for doing what tourists pay through the nose to do: seeing and remembering new things. Painter Robert Sivard, 40, has a blockful of Paris shops and people firmly on canvas as well as in memory; his pictures, which went on view this week at Manhattan's Midtown Gallery, are the sort any armchair tourist can enjoy...
Died. Karl Hofer. 76. director of West Berlin's Academy of Art and dean of German expressionist painters, famed for his rigid studies of lonely, slab-faced men and women (TIME, Aug. 18, 1952); of a stroke; in Berlin. Old Rebel Hofer was damned by the Nazis as "degenerate" after his widely praised oil. The Wind, won the Carnegie International jury's $1,000 first prize in 1938. He continued to paint in secret, lost some 300 paintings in an Allied bombing raid in 1943, but set doggedly to work at war's end to reproduce them...