Word: craftsmanship
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...said to have painted grapes so realistically that birds swooped down to peck at them. Roman and Pompeian decorators used fool-the-eye murals to give the illusion of spaciousness to narrow rooms. By the 17th and 18th centuries, the technique had turned into a whimsical exercise in craftsmanship, and it still enchants many realistic painters throughout the world...
...grandmother by superimposing a bit of her needlepoint, a page from her Bible and some pressed flowers, upon old shingles. To depict willow trees in the rain he mounted twigs, flecked with gelatine, on glass. Wild and precise at once, he would try anything, and always with exquisite craftsmanship. Until his death, Dove's painted patterns of blobby color and flickering line gained steadily in emotional refinement, but their refinement resulted in a kind of fragility. Seen with the utmost sympathy, some of his best works are poignant as bird cries; looked at in a less receptive mood, they...
...Maupassant, are pitted in spots, but glow with the patina of timelessness. The Italian stories, put up in the hurry and scurry of the post-World War I decades by such contemporary literary architects as Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi and Vasco Pratolini, rock with life, and occasionally with shaky craftsmanship. American readers, surfeited with New Yorker-like tales of muted discontent, may find both collections refreshing reminders of what Italy's Ignazio Silone calls "the really important events of life-birth, love, suffering, death...
...finest piece of craftsmanship in the June Advocate is a translation by John Wilson from Euripides' Bacchae. Classics. Homer. Euripides. Bronson Potter. Not the Same...
High marks for cinema technique go to Producer Asher, Director William (Portrait of Jennie) Dieterle, and especially to all concerned in the art direction, film editing, special effects and process photography. Their craftsmanship has almost succeeded in blending a Technicolored crazy quilt of Hollywood foregrounds and Ceylonese backgrounds into a single mood...