Word: draftsman
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...discovery of classical antiquity. He felt that his destiny was to introduce these new ideas to the North. He had informed himself from scraps, mainly engravings after Mantegna and his imitators that he had seen and copied in Wolgemut's Nuremberg studio. Dürer was already a virtuoso draftsman; but there was nobody alive in Germany against whom he could test himself...
...took her to a women's suffrage convention. She still remembers being moved by a Susan B. Anthony speech. "All through my girlhood," she recalls, "I ushered at suffrage meetings and distributed leaflets." She graduated from M.I.T. with a B.S. in architecture in 1909. She worked as a draftsman until World War I, when she became a full-time feminist. She carried the movement to rural Massachusetts, making "222 speeches in 14 weeks...
...hipster from the Bronx-a mean blade, good with a saxophone or a motorcycle, the flamboyant, randy and infinitely dexterous picaro of Tenth Street. But by the end of the '60s, his virtues had to an extent rebounded on his reputation. His astounding skill as a traditional, realistic draftsman looked vaguely suspect to some critics. The ironical love with which he raided the beaux-arts tradition for such images as Napoleon, a reworking of David's 1812 portrait of the hero, struck them as literary but in the wrong way: not philosophical enough, unconcerned (unlike Johns and Rauschenberg...
...named, for the ceremonious dance of leaf and bloom, formal as an Islamic tile, stands to real plants as puppets do to real people. Yet the plants are alive, and their vitality is in the probing, inquisitive line that flowed from Klee's pen. He was an astounding draftsman, one of the virtuosos of the century. Whether tracing into cubist patterns the squares and towers of a Renaissance town (Italian City, 1928), or making a gay arabesque out of the contents of a moon-washed room (Still-Life: Plant and Window, 1927) or simply, in Klee's words...
...human stories behind the trends and statistics convey a feel of hard times. Pete Carnes, 35, a Broomfield, Colo., draftsman, has just lost his third job in 14 months. After eleven years of steady work for Chrysler Corp., he was laid off by the company's space division at Cape Kennedy in June 1969. He sold his Florida house at a $2,000 loss and disposed of some Chrysler stock, Government bonds and a small boat to finance a move to Colorado. He was hired by a research firm, but that job lasted only six months. After six weeks...