Word: draftsmanship
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...brooms in the corner of his studio. At first glance, Permeke's lowering land and seascapes, bulky peasants and heavy-limbed nudes look as though they might well have been swept on to the canvas with a carelessly bound bunch of straw. But their spontaneity and crudely powerful draftsmanship have earned him a place as a leader of Belgian expressionism and, according to some critics, "one of the most incontestable masters that Belgium has given...
Since his first postwar show in 1949, Pagliacci's work has climbed steadily on the bestseller lists. His paintings, marked by skilled draftsmanship and dramatic coloring, have had a particular vogue with U.S. collectors, among them Nelson Rockefeller and Cinemactor Clifton Webb. Last week Pagliacci, who knows a good thing when he sees it, was hard at work burning up two more Roman churches with pigment and canvas...
...personal as a signature. Anybody who has seen one Modigliani can recognize a second one at a glance: almost all his painted people have swan necks, seesaw eyes and ski-run noses. Surprisingly enough, he was able to characterize each one sharply within that arbitrary formula. For traditional draftsmanship he substituted clear, smoothly looping lines that divide the canvas into locked swirls of space. Instead of a full palette he used a few colors ranging from the darkness of thick smoke to the brightness of red rust...
Muccini likes contrasts of light & dark better than color contrasts. He uses mostly whites, greys, dusty blues and blacks, thickly applied and precisely outlined. His draftsmanship and his sense of placing are extraordinary; by projecting a few sharply focused figures against a barren background he gives both full play. Part of his power stems from the directness of Muccini's approach to art. He had no early contact with art schools and theories, learned his craft by the simple process of painting layers of pictures on both sides of what little canvas he could afford...
Last week a Manhattan gallery staged an exhibition which fairly well proved the power of Vespignani's draftsmanship. It also showed that at 26, Vespignani is getting a bit weary, for some of the drawings were as bad as others were good. Among the worst were railroad yards briary enough to be mistaken for bad etchings of French cathedrals. Among the best were two drawings of a girl named Grazielle, done with such directness and bite that Goya himself would not have been ashamed of them...