Word: draftsmanship
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DIED. Lee Krasner, 75, pioneer abstract expressionist painter of the New York School, whose mastery of draftsmanship and color, informed by an angry toughness and an exceptionally strong sense of rhythm, showed the influence of Matisse and Picasso as well as Jackson Pollock, her husband from 1945 until his death in 1956; after a long illness; in New York City. When they met in 1936, the Brooklyn-born Krasner was the better credentialed of the two and helped move Pollock toward the avantgarde. She continued to paint in a mutually respectful, noncompetitive partnership with him during the years of poverty...
...looking, close-toned surfaces; all nuance and doubt on top (often de Kooning, like Arshile Gorky, could not bring himself to give the final form to a hand or the side of a face, leaving it a worried blur), they were iron below. It was de Kooning's draftsmanship that enabled him to fix his parings from other artists-from Gorky, John Graham and, above all, Picasso-to a firm core. One can cite the Picassoan acquisitions in Seated Woman, circa 1940 | (the hair from Dora Maar, the breasts and calves from Marie-Thérèse Walter...
...changed hundreds of laws, such as those governing food stamp and unemployment benefits, to reduce spending by $35 billion. Both measures were written in the White House; the reconciliation bill was done so hastily that Texas Democrat Jim Wright, the House Majority Leader, called it "the sloppiest piece of draftsmanship I've ever seen-a terrible insult to the Legislative Branch...
Today he is remembered chiefly because of some whimsical decorations for a nonsense epic. Although he lacks the spidery draftsmanship of Sir John Tenniel, who brought the Alice books to life, Holiday lends the tale an ominous air and a sense of open-ended allegory...
...illustrations (361 in color) provide the fullest look anyone but a diligent art historian will ever have of Picasso's formative period. He was never an apprentice. In his early teens he could do copies of Velásquez and large-scale compositions. The draftsmanship in such works was astonishing, but the sketchbooks reached out for bigger challenges. It is possible in these pages to watch him take each step of a discovery. The emaciated figures of the Blue period take shape slowly, as do the acrobats and harlequins of the Rose. The author's survey ends with...