Word: draftsmanship
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...things that used to be best about the best Disney movies are now so emphatically good that they verge on mere blatancy; the old weaknesses have grown a hundred times their old size. The draftsmanship is becoming rigid and frigid in a kind of gift-shoppe stylization. The outbursts of pure energy, though more restrained than in The Three Caballeros, still seem touched with homicidal mania. Nearly every attempt at cuteness, sweetness, tenderness, sublimity, results in one or another kind of painful simper. There is a frequent, unscrupulous alternation between the dreamy shimmer and the bang on the snoot...
...Fiery Colchian. Beria, king of the cops, was born March 29, 1899, at Merkheuli, a village in Stalin's own Georgia. His family were poor peasants. He attended the polytechnic school at Baku and joined the Bolshevik Party before he received his degree in draftsmanship and engineering...
...growing up in Brooklyn, the local toughs used to make him draw chalk portraits of their favorite athletes on the sidewalk. Accuracy was imperative, and Shahn never forgot the lesson. Although Shahn's use of color has gradually become so arbitrary as to verge on artiness, his draftsmanship is often realistic and clear...
...felt himself at a new peak of his powers. It had meant sometimes painting for 36 hours at a stretch; he had finished the 18 ft. by 36 ft. wall in a record-breaking 53 days' work. But there had been no waste in his haste. The draftsmanship in his new mural was unfalteringly sculptural; the colors-especially the reds and yellows-were deep and clear; he had never painted a more fascinating cast of characters...
...Draftsmanship Is By-Product...