Word: draftsmanship
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Some critics who like their guitars complete questioned the truncated treatment ("Is Colin a sadist?" asked one solemnly). But they unanimously praised his brilliant draftsmanship and his tender use of color. Wrote Le Peintre: "A great artist . . . Behind his playfulness lies a lot of meditation and some particular mystery which is Colin's own invention...
...woman-hating perfectionist who was Mary Cassatt's closest male friend. "I would not have admitted," he exclaimed when first he saw her work, "that a woman could draw as well as that." He proceeded to teach her a good deal of his own almost cruelly precise draftsmanship, which has never been surpassed for subtlety. Other impressionists-Manet, Monet et al. -followed Degas' lead in drawing Painter Cassatt into their sunlit circle. From them she got the habit of subordinating form, space and texture to the pure play of light, and of giving her pictures a modest...
...cubism, but a cubism tempered and refined with a solid, realistic touch. On Ghika's canvas, Paris' chimneyed rooftops, the jackstraw confusion of a Greek hillside town become strict, disciplined designs blocked in with arbitrary colors. But there is no trouble recognizing what he paints: his sharp draftsmanship shows all the cruel dryness of Greece's stony uplands, its patterned fields, searing sun, and gaunt, bare-limbed fig trees. Said London's Observer, after seeing the show: "Ghika has extended the boundaries of cubism...
Compared with the sloppy and insensitive draftsmanship that plagues much of modern art fully a third of the pictures on display last week in Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library seemed minor masterpieces. Yet they were done mainly for pleasure, to while away an hour in the open, or as preliminary sketches for more ambitious work. Entitled "Landscape Drawings and Watercolors from Bruegel to Cezanne," the exhibition spans four little centuries of landscape art with 94 delicate little pictures...
Jacob Lawrence, 35, is the nation's (and probably the world's) foremost Negro painter. Yet his draftsmanship would hardly earn passing grades at an academic art school; his painting technique is dry, flat, hesitant; his colors are sometimes dirty, sometimes neon-bright, always arbitrary...