Word: draftsmanship
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Along with the paintings were nine examples of Leonardo's unsurpassed draftsmanship and 66 models of his scientific inventions, ranging from ten-barreled machine guns and rocket-shaped projectiles to automatic roasting spits and a slave-powered air-conditioning unit for the Duchess' bedroom. They showed that in the vast chiaroscuro of Leonardo's mind, scores of the horrors and wonders of 20th Century science had hatched and died...
...torch singer, Mlle. Damia, the literalness disappeared; Mlle. Damia was waxy, unsmiling, delicately pushed out of shape. A few months before he died, Bérard had portrayed himself sitting like a somewhat damp but proud Bacchus on a beach. The painting conveyed the subtlety of his seemingly careless draftsmanship and the atmospheric shimmer he could evoke from a few dull colors...
Marsh records Manhattan in the lusty, busty style that Hogarth and Thomas Rowlandson used to capture 18th Century London. He lacks Rowlandson's genius for caricature, but in draftsmanship, technical skill and honesty of observation Marsh is easily his peer...
Raoul Dufy is the 71-year-old granddaddy of modem chic. His personal blend of bright, carelessly smeared colors with shorthand draftsmanship is imitated in chichi perfume ads and fashion magazines month after month. Last week gallery-goers in Paris and Manhattan could see the real thing: paintings from Dufy's palsied but still brilliant hand and (in Paris) tapestries woven from his designs. The tapestries, reported Paris' Combat, were "a triumphal success . . . pure...
...varnish from French canvases, restoring to them the clear bright colors David had intended. His pen-drawing of Marie-Antoinette on her way to the guillotine, which David was cool enough and history-minded enough to sketch on the spot, was an unassuming example of his naturally incisive draftsmanship and genius for portraiture...