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...work in the show that seems out of place dates from 1943, when Broderson was only 14. It is a meticulous rendering of the muscled back of a male model, done with all the skill of a master draftsman. Gradually, Broderson came to "dislike perfect bodies.'' His figures became a play of shadow and form-squat, ghostly figures that can be taken as universal symbols suggesting anything from the innocence of a child's puppet to the thunder of an ancient god. For a while, they held the stage with nothing in the background, but over...
...since reality changes constantly, distortion of some sort must imply that change. The comic and the cosmic artist were not so far apart, and Feininger the painter was always grateful to Feininger the cartoonist. "Far be it from me," he said, "to underrate those important years as a comics draftsman. They were my only discipline...
...Taste of Honey, is nevertheless a movie with an urgent social message: the working class is the irking class in Britain. The message, never flatly delivered, is ironically implied in the plot, which involves a matter of wife and death. The hero, a hearty young draftsman named Vic (Alan Bates), works in a big mill in Lancashire and spends his spare time "chattin' up the typies.'' One day he chats up a little bit of all right (June Ritchie) who is just as twee as she can be on five quid a week, and so blonde...
...Buenaventura Valley, Colombia, William F. Woudenberg, 32, a draftsman from Paterson, N.J., developed a loom to make forms for concrete out of plentiful bamboo instead of hard-to-find wood or expensive steel. In the East Pakistan village of Comilla, another inventive corpsman Robert Taylor, 24, from Oakdale, Calif., solved the problem of parboiling rice without using scarce wood; he uses rice husks instead, does the job ten times faster. Stephen L. Keller, 24, from Brooklyn, New York, watched a worker in a Punjab bicycle factory count 6,800 ball bearings one by one, built a ball-bearing counter that...
Besides being a master of romantic intrigue, Miss Siegl is also a talented draftsman and has made excellent use of color. She applies very subtle shadings against heavy black lines and almost never do her colors become cluttered...