Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gloved hand. It was the Queen's first state visit to the grimy industrial county where 5,000,000 sturdy English folk spin the bulk of Britain's cotton textiles, mine a goodly share of its coal. She had come with her husband Philip to shed a ray of royal hope in the one region of prosperous Britain that is visibly and chronically depressed. "Dark, Satanic Mills." Lancashire is not the tourists' England. Forty miles wide by 60 miles long, it is bisected by the river Ribble into a northern rural section that merges into Wordsworth...
...Unconscious Self. Last year Ray started work on a portrait of Columbia Lecturer Daisetz Suzuki, 79, a bushy-browed Zen Buddhist philosopher. Rather than paint the portraits on top of each other, Ray decided to make eight consecutive portraits. The result, on view this week in Manhattan's Willard Gallery, added up to a tour de force for the initiated. But the others were floundering after they left Stage One: a generally recognizable oil sketch of Suzuki...
...Ray's series Suzuki next turned into an angry black scrawl, faded into heavy yellow and black (Soul Fading), then dramatically changed into a thick impasto of blues, orange, black, with lines scratched out by Ray's palette knife. Believing that "the artist, like physicists, must use the abstract to get to the concrete," Ray's next two portraits of Suzuki were abstractions of opposing lines. No. 7 stopped most viewers in their tracks. It was a startling blank canvas, washed in with cloudy browns. But Taoist Lecturer Dr. C. Y. Chang, on hand for the opening...
...final portrait was a handsome, delicately painted oil that looked like a faded Buddhist scroll suggesting blue mountains, red sky and willow-green foreground. At this point, according to Ray...
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...