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...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...
...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...
...from China. In the zyth century, the Ngo Dinh clan was converted to Roman Catholicism, and they held to their faith at a grisly price: as recently as 1870, no fewer than 100 of the Ngo Dinh were surrounded in their church and burned alive. (Today Viet Nam, essentially Buddhist, has about 2,000,000 Catholics...
Armed with $800 raised during a quick visit to the U.S., she arrived in Bangkok in 1938 to find conditions even worse than she expected. To most of Thailand's Buddhist population, blindness was simply a punishment inflicted for some evil done in a previous life, and not even the government seemed to want to interfere. "This is really unnecessary work the late Prince Rajada Sonakul told her. "When we finish educating all the delinquent boys in Thailand, perhaps we can do something for the physically handicapped." Weary of official brushoffs. Miss Caulfield decided to take her case...
...most Westerners, Japanese art spells woodcuts. This pains the Japanese, who are justly proud of their brush drawings, Buddhist sculptures and painted screens. But like American jazz, Japanese woodcuts succeed in expressing a popular culture precisely. The unique charm of that culture was amply displayed this week when some 350 top-rank Japanese prints went on view at Chicago's Art Institute...