Word: draftsmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liebermann matures, his style becomes more and more linear, the tonality becomes lighter and a freshness and power of draftsmanship appears. Prints of horse racing and polo games illustrate masterful drawing and a vigorous rendering of figures in violent motion...
...Spain Miguel Ratonocito. Last week he became Art. In Manhattan's Kennedy Galleries art critics piously eyed a collection of original Mickey Mouse cartoons from the Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood. Wrote one, "Genius . . . profoundest stuff . . . drama of the eternal ego." Another noted "the integrity of the draftsmanship, the flair for effective massing of spaces and the never failing rhythmic pattern of the drawings." From Manhattan the cartoons will go to leading U. S. colleges and museums for exhibition under the auspices of the College Art Association.† Mickey Mouse's popularity derives from the absolute freedom...
...Henry Harrison with his cider barrel. Many a caricaturist saw Lincoln as the embodiment of evil, a crooked juggler, a murderer (in England), a bad boy with "American manners," an afrite (evil genie). Few drew him as he is done today, compassionate, Christlike. The book amply demonstrates that the draftsmanship of the time, while amusing, was almost ghastly in its ineptitude...