Word: portraited
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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...
...tell us more about the excellent cover by Henry Koerner? What does the Madonna and the book mean? What was the artist's reaction while painting this portrait...
...Artist Koerner painted Father Hesburgh with a Giotto madonna, an atomic equation and a chemical formula to "represent the changeless and the changing-both in Hesburgh's domain." The portrait took a week of intensive sittings, and Koerner felt that "Hesburgh helped me paint it just by being a man of great capacity for compassion and passion." The artist also came away impressed by the subject's sense of discipline: "He would hold the pose for two or three hours without moving a finger...
...certainly easy to carry home (8 oz. v. the 4 Ib. 2 oz. of the New York Times). The pictures were played for dramatic effect: a blast-off shot of Saturn, the U.S.'s largest rocket, soared majestically the length of the page; a glowering portrait of Brigadier General William B. Rosson, the U.S. Army's guerrilla warfare expert, was brutally cropped to eliminate part of the general's brow, all of his hair and his left ear. Even the paper on which the newcomer was printed seemed whiter by several degrees than ordinary oyster-grey newsprint...
...Janeiro. An Italian immigrant's son who once painted signs for mule carts, Portinari was the first South American ever given a one-man show by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and, though an avowed Communist for much of his career, accepted commissions for a portrait of former Brazilian President Janio Quadros for TIME'S cover (June 30, 1961), the monumental War and Peace panels in the U.N. General Assembly, and a series of church murals...