Word: craftsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to the criticism of Reynolds and West, Copley began to put the finishing touches on his expertise as a craftsman. He learned to use colors to harmonize and unify his compositions and he made them responsive to each other instead of isolating them in the composition. He also abandoned much of the sharp contrast of color that earmarked his earlier work and he emerged with a more Rembrandtesque palette. His chiarascuro in this period intensified and his brush stroke became more exhuberant, bringing him into a closer affinity with the baroque Dutch masters. One of the most striking developments...
...very thing their lives had lacked. When you hear Capote accused of capitalizing on the results of that lack, bear in mind that it was the most extreme test of his objectivity. As a friend of the killers he suffered privately and had their graves marked; as artist and craftsman he raised a public monument to the questions posed by the Clutter affair...
...deeply sorry to hear of Boris Artzybasheff's death [July 23]. His artistic integrity was rare and outstanding. He was the finest craftsman of our time, highly imaginative, most original in his concepts. The gap Artzy left may never be filled; he will be long remembered...
...Indian gleaming on the Province House cupola would, as superstition had it, shoot his arrow at high noon. In Pennsylvania, a weather vane in the shape of an Indian was meant as an offer of friendship-and hence protection from rampaging redskins. Soon every back-porch whittler and crackerjack craftsman was getting into the act. Weather vanes popped up in the shapes of Uncle Sam, butterflies, locomotives, Gabriel tooting on a trumpet, a haggard country doctor astraddle a haggard horse, even a modest metal mermaid...
...Pronounced Buh-tzal-el, the museum is named after the first master craftsman in the Bible (Exodus 31:2), who built the tabernacle in the wilderness...