Word: draftsman
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...take him because he fell behind in his union dues. The army turned him down because he was fined $37 for being drunk and disorderly after a New Year's party. An architect's office rejected him, even though he has passed the test to be a draftsman trainee. The reason: he did not own a suit. "I am permanently hungry," McGurty says. "I can only afford one meal...
Diane W. Upright, assistant professor of Fine Arts, said this week the focus on drawings will provide new insight into Picasso's works. "The real core of his work is his art as a draftsman. The drawings reveal what Picasso is all about," she said...
...watchmaker, draftsman and student who spend hours squinting over their work may soon have less trouble focusing if Harvard researchers can apply recent findings on near-sightedness, uncovered through the youthful science of biomechanics...
...draftsman, Smith was fecund, prolific to the point of garrulity, and very uneven. In front of many drawings in this show one is made to feel that, had they not been created by one of the leading modernist sculptors, they would not command much attention on their plain aesthetic merits. Most of the work from the late '30s and early '40s is pastiche of one sort or another: a heavy line, now dogmatic, now uncertain, grinding across the paper, paying its digestive homages to Picasso, Gonzalez, constructivism generally and, rather surprisingly, to the bonelike figures of Moore...
...meantime, independent thinkers are busy hatching schemes to beat the system. "A great learning process is going on," says Madison Draftsman Dan Greco, who describes himself as a "lay expert" in conservation. On Block Island, R.I., where the last sizable stands of trees were cut and sent up the chimney decades ago, some residents are experimenting with drying and burning peat. Mantle kerosene lamps are in fashion through the Northeast: not only is their light soft and pleasant, but the heat they radiate is equal to almost half that of a small electric space heater...