Word: draftsman
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...High Museum of Art in Atlanta and landing six stops later at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. But for all the overexertions of the catalog's scholarly essays to transform Rockwell from influential illustrator to grand artiste, he remains what he will always be: our deftest draftsman of democracy's dreams. That should be enough. WHEN Opens...
...system, appealed to Pollock as a container for his own emotional flailing. Though some painters show early signs of genius, or at least of facility, Pollock showed none. After you've seen his early drawings in this show, it seems barely credible that so ham-fisted a young draftsman could have become such an exponent of visual grace...
...human form to mechanics, extremely weird--particularly when Leger's obsession with modernity coexisted with a sense of form and construction that went straight back to those archetypal figures of French classicism, Nicolas Poussin in the 17th century and Jacques-Louis David in the 18th. And what a draftsman Leger turns out to have been! Some of the drawings in this show are among the finest of the 20th century, and this too will come as a surprise...
...scientifically verifiable had long been resident in 19th century America. But it was brought to a peak in the wake of the Civil War. The journalistic eye was equal, as a transmitter of (sometimes unbearable) reality, to that of the novelist or poet; the camera replaced the draftsman in reportage. This was new. American public culture was now driven by technique--the skills that built bridges and docks and railroads, the scientific laws that underwrote Americans' conquest of their environment. There was no ghost in the machine, only the machine itself...
BORN: Aug. 27, 1957, Sikeston, Mo. EDUCATION: Southeast Missouri State U, 1975-76 FAMILY: Wife, Judy; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Navy, 1980-86 OCCUPATION: Draftsman POLITICAL CAREER: Tamms precinct committeeman, 1994-96; Alexander County Republican Party chairman, 1994-96; Tamms Village trustee, 1995- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 11, Fourth Street, Tamms...