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...artist's sudden maturation is balm to see: 20 years of work, elusive recognition-then a burst of paintings of exceptional originality and depth. It does not often happen that way, but in the past year it has to a soft-spoken California painter named Joseph Raffael, 40. His series of five Water Paintings-large studies of light and reflection on fragments of river, without horizon or air or any of the normal appurtenances of landscape painting-goes on view this week at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in lower Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Slice of the River | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...Raffael was born in Brooklyn. He studied and lived in New York City before deciding, as he put it, that "I desperately needed to find some alternative" to the abrasive, narrow competitiveness of its art scene. During a 1966 teaching stint at the University of California in Berkeley, he met Artists William Allan and William Wiley, still his closest friends. "I liked the independence and quality of their work," he recalls, "and especially how their lives as men and artists were so rich. It instilled in me a sense of what a person and an artist could be." With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Slice of the River | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...season when a number of dealers and publications have been touting "photographic realism" as the latest new trend, at least two of Manhattan's abler painters have proudly displayed what might be called unphotographic realism. Their canvases differ widely, but both Jack Beal, 37, and Joseph Raffael, 36, invest the visible world with invisible qualities of fantasy and imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Unphotography | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Brooklyn-born Joseph Raffael on the other hand, has found the world on occasion a little bit too dangerous and complex. He first won renown in 1965 with grotesquely fragmented, pop-oriented paintings of animals such as test monkeys wired into laboratory chairs. Looking back, Raffael says that he thinks that he was trying to "make vulnerable paintings about pain, haltingly, blindly. But it is hard to maintain open wounds. They've got to close or be treated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Unphotography | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Precious Relic. He has treated the wounds with biweekly visits to a mental therapist, having also experimented with marijuana, astrology, numerology and spiritualism. Despite his varied researches, Raffael does not come on, as he says, "like some kind of mystical freak," possibly because he leads a relatively sedate life with his recently acquired wife and her two children by a previous marriage on a farm in Bennington, Vt. His latest oils, shown at Manhattan's Stable Gallery this winter, also show a new, monumental serenity. Raffael now likes statelier themes: an Egyptian bust, a gem-encrusted crown, raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Unphotography | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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