Word: draftsman
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...young his violinist father broke a fiddle over his head because he would not practice. After this violent baptism, he was separated from music and sent to study for four years at the National Academy of Design. At the end of that time he was 18 and an accomplished draftsman, but he quit Art cold. Says he, "I just couldn't understand what painting...
...been in the automobile business ever since he got out of Georgia Tech in 1911, returned to Eatonton to run a garage. Presently he became a mechanic in Detroit's early motor companies, got fired with monotonous regularity until he branched into sales. He did a turn as draftsman with Haynes Automobile Co., lost some money but learned how to be an executive in the short-lived Sun Motor Car Co., finally hitched his trailer to a star in 1918 by joining Hyatt Roller Bearing Co. then headed by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.* When Hyatt was taken over...
Best represented artist is Degas. In his portrait drawing of Manet, and in the "Lady Reclining in a Chair," he reveals his skill as a draftsman. With a few long, easy, flowing lines he brings his sketches to life, for it is life and movement that he is most interested in. That is why he drew so constantly the dancers of the Paris Opera. The one painting of a "Ballet Dancer" on display illustrates his characteristic treatment of this subject. The figure, which is light and graceful, wears a light blue dress with spots here and there of sheer color...
...name is mentioned it is immediately associated with Cubism, and the common notion about Cubists is that they work in their peculiar manner because they are unable to do otherwise. In this drawing, however, there is not a trace of Cubism. Quite to the contrary, it shows a draftsman who, in technical skill, is almost equal to the great artists of the Italian Renaissance. Picasso's use of line has form and solidarity which can hardly be excelled, and his handling of many different bodily positions is expert in the highest degree...
...Rourke about the degree of three-dimensional design underlying them. More clearly a fusion of abstraction and realism are earlier paintings of farmhouse interiors, later paintings of patterned objects in Artist Sheeler's home at Ridgefield, Conn. Few critics will deny that his work proves Sheeler an exquisite draftsman, an orderly spirit and a sophisticated man. His Self Portrait (see cut) is a prim parable: "The artist remains in shadow . . . and the cord is there to pull down the shade at any time. . . . If one chooses to go farther one may infer that he does not speak directly...