Word: draftsman
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...elephantine 16 by 26 ft., it is actually not a Crucifixion, but a Descent from the Cross. Brilliant draftsman that he is, Lebrun has defined every shape dramatically, but they are all ugly, including the figure of Christ, and many are menacing as barbed wire besides. The color is a dirty near-monochrome, was used by Lebrun in the hope that a film short would be based on his picture. It has the glaring light and the wriggling shadows of a flashbulb photograph...
...carefully wrought tempera paintings almost invariably succeed in being both clear and convincing. Strangely enough, his watercolors, which he dashes off in a hurry, do too. In them his love of nature (preferably bleak) has much freer rein, and in them he proves himself a delicate and sensitive draftsman, not merely a careful...
...Yellow Book was a queer literary blossom of the not-so-Naughty Nineties. Stuffy contemporaries thought it a stinkweed, but today it seems more like a pressed rose-flat and sere. A British quarterly launched by Critic Henry Harland and Draftsman Aubrey Beardsley, it ran from 1894 to 1897, published the trial flights of half a dozen future soarers...
...pictures were superb, so far as they went. Almost all of them were of Montmartre floozies in various stages of undress. A master draftsman, Pascin employed the sfumato (blurring of lines) dear to Da Vinci. His models were not so much outlined as enmeshed in delicate, shifting parentheses. Being no great shakes as a colorist, he avoided strong hues, tinted his figures with light dabs of pearly paint. No other artist, except Lautrec, ever mixed sweetness and sordidness more successfully. What kept Pascin out of Lautrec's league was that he had no bite; his paintings were pale...
...acres, on which the home's milk and meat is raised. Another house at North East, Pa. has 37 patients. St. Barnabas' Brotherhood, founded as a religious order in 1913, now numbers five cowled and cassocked brothers. "One is an engineer," Hance explained last week, "a draftsman and all that. Me, I've got no brains at all. I'm just an ordinary soul...