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...singular draftsman. Lopez's pencil drawings, both tiny and enormous --Water Closet, 1970-73, is 8 ft. high--display a command over the medium unique in 20th century realism. Who else has achieved such finesse of tone, such a steely grasp of hallucinatory detail within the ordinary, such a disdain for visual clutter? At their best, the drawings are a mesmerizing conjunction of opposites. On one hand, the patient surface, rubbed and reworked to a silvery bloom punctuated with dark points of attention, anxiously tender and very seductive to the eye; on the other, a kind of silent rawness...
...problem is not, as one sometimes hears, that Katz "paints the same thing over and over": everyone has his list of great artists who have done that, from Cezanne laboring at Montagne Ste.-Victoire to Morandi with his dusty bottles. It is that Katz is a poor draftsman. He seems not to look at anything but the painting, and so repeats the same stereotypes for the human face and body, for houses and dogs, steering wheels and tables, and everything else that he puts in his big, clean, post-Hopperish spaces. The idea of drawing as scrutiny of a subject...
...most generalized form of his human subjects. He may draw figures better than Milton Avery, but that is not saying much. The late-'50s portraits of Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Taylor and Norman Bluhm are, as portraiture, thin and perfunctory; for a quick check on what a first-rate American draftsman could do with the human face as a focus of inquisitorial attention, one could have done worse than visit West 57th Street after leaving the Whitney to catch the show of Ellsworth Kelly's portrait drawings at the Blum Helman Gallery. Perhaps only in America, where the cultural role...
Thiebaud is weaker, because more illustrational, as a draftsman of the human body. He renders it with stolid accuracy, but never endows it with the depth or concision of feeling that infuses the still lifes; the flesh aspires to the condition of vinyl...
...were being based on tax considerations," explains Egger. "Prices in real estate became of no concern. Tax benefits were being sold." Decisions in business, Egger points out, "should be based on economics, not on taxes." The overhaul proposed by Treasury, says Tax Scholar Charles McLure, who was a principal draftsman, is "a free-market manifesto." Ronald Reagan is a client...