Word: draftsmanship
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...Meal. Their signature was the all-pervading blue monotone, a color which Picasso has since explained "was not a question of light or color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that." The clowns and buffoons of the Rose period that followed still astonish by their sure draftsmanship and haunting melancholy...
...hours, destroyed nine-tenths of what he painted by hacking it up with a knife. But oddly enough, Soutine had little sympathy with or liking for Van Gogh's work, claimed as his models such old masters as Rembrandt and Tintoretto, whom he did not remotely match in draftsmanship (though with the hot, jewellike quality of his color, he sometimes came close...
...whoever the master, Fra Angelico was an apt pupil. His first Virgin and Child surpasses Monaco's in both draftsmanship and coloring. More important, Fra Angelico broke free from the rigid mold of medieval art; his Virgin is no longer two-dimensional, but a figure that turns in space with a life-giving gesture...
...hallmark of German art at its best, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, has been its strong design and sure draftsmanship. Nowhere is this more evident than in the long history of great German drawings. Now, for the first time, U.S. gallerygoers have a chance to judge the full sweep of the Germans' monumental achievement. The first full-scale exhibition of six centuries of German drawing ever put together in one show opened this week in Washington's National Gallery, first stop in a cross-country tour of four major U.S. cities. To show the whole...
...Davies also served in the tropics) than along the St. Lawrence River. But at his best, he caught the primitive pioneer settlements, magnificent waterfalls, foaming rivers, the awesome virgin forests touched with the full richness of Canadian autumn, and recorded them with a freshness and charm that extends deft draftsmanship into the realm...