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...founded the Zen sect 1,500 years ago. Then, if his wish is fulfilled, he completes the Daruma's missing eye as a symbol of gratitude for otherworldly intervention. Last week, in the Tokyo headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Premier Eisaku Sato dipped a sumi brush into an inkstone and with swift strokes daubed in the dark right eye of his Daruma. "The eyes," he remarked when he had finished...
PAUL HORIUCHI-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. This artist arrived at an esthetic blend of East and West by drawing by turns on Sumi-ink training in his native Japan, the tutelage of Seattle Zen Master Takizaki and, finally, the abstract expressionism of Mark Tobey (who selected this show). Horiuchi's abstract collages, composed of torn bits of rice and mulberry paper stained in misty shades of grey, evoke not so much nature's shapes as its weathery moods-sleet, snow, rain...
...Because he begins with plan and ends with chaotic inspiration, De Kooning's first drawing retrospective provides illuminating clues to the natural forms that shape his abstractions, to the explicitness with which he builds ambiguity, to how his art is made. Forty-odd drawings in charcoal, pencil, pastel, sumi-ink and Sapolin include classical studies of the '30s, samplings from the "Boudoir" and "Attic" series, sketches for Pink Angel (the painting that reportedly copped $60,000 last year), and 16 new pencil lyrics on his most recurrent theme, women. Through...
Such praise makes Horiuchi's eyes brim with gratitude. His early years were difficult and lonely. Trained as a child in Japan in brush and sumi, he came to the U.S. with his family at 15 and settled in Rock Springs, Wyo., where he got a job on the Union Pacific and learned western technique from a visiting WPA art instructor. Two months after Pearl Harbor he was fired, ordered to quit his company house within 24 hours. He burned all the possessions he could not pack into his jalopy and trailer, took to the road with his wife...
...Patriarchs of Religions Boating Together was done in Tessai's last year. The six figures, representing key personages in Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian religious history, are symbolic of Tessai's belief in the underlying unity of Oriental religions. By his controlled use of sumi-ink splash and brush strokes, Tessai turned his white paper into a water-lily-strewn waterway and sky; at the same time his forceful brushwork created a protomodern example for much that in Western painting passes for abstract expressionism. Looking at these last works, one Japanese critic mused: "They are like flowers that bloom...