Word: artisanally
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...early as 1905, Professor Sorokin was telling his truths to factory workers and villagers in his own Russian district. The son of an artisan, he understood the working class, and because of his talents as an orator and pamphleteer, he soon became a top leader in the Social Revolutionary Party...
...paint something "solid and durable like the art of the museums." In the Clockmaker, painted at the height of his powers, he turned out a picture that is as solid and durable as anything done in the last 100 years. The portrait of a skilled and self-respecting artisan, it has glowing warmth and quiet dignity. In spirit, the picture harks back to Rembrandt; in technique, it points forward to cubism...
Thus, when things go wrong, a sudden sickness or a layoff, the plight of the worker can quickly become catastrophic-as in the case of Tatsuji Ishii, 43-year-old Tokyo tinsmith. As an artisan with a skimpy one-man business, Ishii had no salary and no union card, but he had a wife and five children. He owed the grocer, the milkman, the rice dealer. Two weeks ago he sold the family sewing machine to pay the milkman. Last week he fed the whole family a ceremonial meal of rice and red beans. Afterward Ishii strangled his wife...
...give employment to the artisan...
...intense, self-taught artist whose chief love is Byzantine and Romanesque art. In his stained glass he tries to mirror the restrained magnificence of his anonymous idols. Restricting himself to 20 hues of glass-chosen from 15,000 commercially available-he assembles his windows with an artisan named Karl Ganz, then paints them in grisaille (i.e., grey glaze). The whole job (composing, assembling, painting, firing, leading) takes up to three years, and only when the glass is finally installed can the artist see his work as a living entity, vibrating with the light...