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...Craftsman though he clearly is, Dominguez refuses to admit it. "I stand before my canvas," he begins, shrugging his broad shoulders and rolling his round, bloodshot eyes, "and I pick up the brushes. Then things begin to happen all by themselves. Often I have started painting a woman and finished painting a bull. At the Riviera last summer I started painting sailboats. When the picture was finished I realized I had painted butterflies...
...confusion of the Crimean War, a bearded, solemn-eyed young Briton jogged along with the armies in a boxlike wagon marked "Photographic Van." He was Roger Fenton, the first war photographer in history, and he succeeded in catching the authentic mood of Crimea (see opposite page) with the same craftsman's touch that Mathew Brady displayed later in the U.S. Civil War. Last week many a Briton was discovering Fenton's genius in a photographic supplement of The Cornhill, literary quarterly founded by William Makepeace Thackeray...
Graham Sutherland is that rare phenomenon among modern painters, a first-rate craftsman. He draws with great assurance, turns his hand easily to designing china, tapestries and rugs as well as to strictly "like" portraiture (TIME, June...
...Gothic craftsman's fingers...
Poet Cocteau is nonetheless a clever, imaginative dreamer and a skilled film craftsman. With the help of Georges Auric's brilliantly appropriate music and some talented, attractive players, his movie never fails to be dramatic and provocative, or to keep the audience guessing just what will happen next. Those who try to get to the bottom of it all may conclude that Cocteau's waters are not so deep as they are muddy, but the ripples are something...