Word: draftsman
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...from where Pablo Picasso and Julio Gonzalez had left it in the '30s, and given it an extraordinary richness and amplitude. Indeed, his work in three dimensions was so magisterial that it blotted out the rest of his output. For Smith was not only a sculptor, but a draftsman, and his drawings, thousands in number, were an integral part of his life and thought. How important they were in relation to his sculpture can be gauged from the first exhibition of Smith drawings ever held, a showing that opened this month at New York's Whitney Museum. Organized...
...when large-scale magazine color illustration, thanks to radically improved printing technology, had become one of the keys to mass culture?the television, one might say, of pre-electronic America. It was the illustrators' moment; born into it, Rockwell kept climbing. By 1920 he was the Post's star draftsman. By 1925 he had become a national name, and by the end of the Depression he was an American institution: it is unprovable, but probable, that Rockwell's images did more to bolster the assaulted values of American bourgeois life after the Crash than all the politicians' speeches lumped together...
...image of massiveness that was to inspire Piranesi. From the busy Venetian theaters, he learned the art of stage design, which in those times ran to imposing fixed backdrops where ornate buildings receded in dramatic chiaroscuro. At 20, Piranesi landed a job in Rome as a junior draftsman in the retinue of a Venetian ambassador. He yearned to do his own buildings, but as he wrote despondently, "No buildings of today display the magnificence of the old ... nor is there any prince or private man inclined to create any such...
...dictionary, the first since 1965, dropped 3.500 obsolete titles, such as bowling-pin setters, but added 2.100 new ones. To comply with the equal employment opportunity law, cataloguers tortuously rewrote some old job titles. A bat boy became a bat handler, a shoeshine boy a shoe shiner, and a draftsman a drafter. But the title of job No. 159.647-022, someone who "parades across stage to provide background for a chorus line," remained unchanged. Even bureaucrats could not swallow "show person...
...Expressionists have often been obscured by their subject matter. This is especially true of artists such as Meidner, whose violently agitated scenes of streets, explosions and factories, executed between 1910 and 1915, earned him a reputation as a prophet of the Apocalypse. The drawings show, rather, a draftsman concerned with the language of marks on paper. The series of Street Scenes have an abstract life created by their patterns of broken lines and jagged chips of ink. Meidner seems to have translated the textures of wood block into pen-and-ink. The result is powerful in its simplicity; Figure...