Word: craftsmen
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...tentative revival with DreamWorks' Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. Lilo & Stitch is lighter, bouncier, loads more fun. So let's predict that this new Disney film will be an old-fashioned, hand-drawn hit. If traditional animators are not to be the modern equivalents of monks creating illuminated manuscripts--craftsmen in a world whose technology made their skills anachronistic--it had better be. --By Richard Corliss
...never make a model for anything; the model never informs me,” she said as she showed photographs taken in her Brooklyn loft. In one slide, she held her chalk in hand as she outlined the form to be cut by craftsmen she calls “the princes of my studio...
...surrounded himself. He found patrons, particularly businessman Eusebi Güell, who rarely interfered with his vision. Given that Gaudí was given to changing his designs over and over during the building process, they needed to have bottomless pockets. Gaudí was also backed by superb Catalan craftsmen, particularly in stone and iron, and his studio included men both loyal and brilliant in their own right. One, the largely unrecognized Josep Jujol, is described by Van Hensbergen as one of architecture's "greatest creative geniuses...
...slice of mousaka that tastes like the rubber Parthenon you picked up for the folks back home. What next? Get out, out of the tourist rat-runs and into Psirri and Votanikos. There lie the liveliest new quarters of old Athens. Once home to the country's best craftsmen, Psirri, a honeycomb of one-room workshops, barbershops, tobacconists and tanneries, has been revamped and gentrified, gracefully. Humble huts are now trendy ouzerí and cafés. Warehouses have become fashionable nightclubs. Neoclassical buildings with gateways on to verdant courtyards have been converted to stylish galleries and quaint tavernas. That...
...museum stop, this Neo-classical landmark is the place to go. Open again after a 12-year renovation, the museum has a priceless collection spanning Hellenism?s 5,000 years. 1 Koumbari Street. Tel: +30 1 36 71 000. Admission: $4.50. wrought-iron balconies, and you'll find craftsmen like Constantine Petropoulos, 88, repairing some of the world's oldest gramophones. Walk into the workshop of Dimitris Kokkinelis, one of the last chalcographers in Greece, and watch him mold medals, some of which may be destined for the 2004 Athens Olympics. Stroll into an archaic atelier and observe the casting...