Word: craftsmanship
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There are two schools of writing, this shaggy-browed poet tells the class; inspiration and craftsmanship; he then proceeds to debunk the notion, ("a hangover from romanticism") that all writing is the produce of the divine word alone. The artist must create from within, the says, but it can't be done until techniques becomes habit, and devices spring up automatically. Craftsmanship is the key to the successful writer's trade. Only when the apprentice learns the craft and chooses his weapons will his message, no matter how great, be heard. "But no real prose talent is going unpublished...
...Kupferman is concerned, these pictures are just museum pieces now. At 39, he bubbles with a new enthusiasm-making abstract paintings of crawling sea life. They hardly looked like the work of the same man. Exhibited in Manhattan last week, the paintings nonetheless showed the same craftsmanship he once lavished on academic art. Kupferman had changed horses in midstream and done it with the dexterity of a circus rider. The question...
...unknown painter named Alesso Baldovinetti, whose Madonna and Child appears on TIME'S cover this week. In any other age, Baldovinetti's talent might have made him the master of his day; while he lived he was known chiefly for his piety and craftsmanship. It was a time when painters and patrons, by common consent, chose God and His saints as the ultimate subject of art, and every studio apprentice planned on growing up to paint Him. It was an age in which Florentines could put in a contract, besides the mundane measurements, the stipulation that their cathedral...
That committee stated in its report, "The sloppy and disorganized way the Student Council has been conducting elections during the last two years is an outrage to any sense of craftsmanship and responsibility and results in pure evil for everyone concerned." The report further recommended that, "The Student Council member in charge of Class Affairs shall be responsible for seeing that all candidates nominated are members of the class and in good academic standing." If this elementary precaution had been taken the Applegate episode could never have occurred...
...report sharply censures the Council for its established election procedures, terming the handling of balloting "sloppy and disorganized," and "an outrage to any sense of craftsmanship and responsibility . . . for everybody concerned...