Word: draftsmanship
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Topolski's art is in the tradition of the great draftsmen Daumier, Callot, Hogarth, his earlier work astoundingly like that of France's Benjamin-Constant. Says Topolski: "My particular love, my aim, and object in art" is Descriptive Draftsmanship-which he believes to be perishing...
...this week opened an exhibition of turbulent canvases on Manhattan's 57th Street, loves to paint conflicts and catastrophes, swarming canvases in which full-blown nudes and horses writhe and rear in the throes of floods, shipwrecks, stampedes. And gallery-goers like his smoldering color and sweeping draftsmanship, which make the most innocent New England landscape seethe with dramatic struggle...
Technique. The earliest cave pictures were not painted but scratched on walls with sharpened flints. Profiles were absolute with but single fore and hind legs, and lacking were such details as hooves, eyes, hair and nostrils. But as Aurignacian scratching developed into painting, remarkable sophistication of draftsmanship appeared. In the Montignac group, stiffness of profile has relaxed and action abounds - the beasts run, leap, browse, swim, lie down, chew their cuds. The head of an ancient long-horned cow (see cut) displays an excellent eye and nostril, subtle shading and dappling. To the Paleolithic artist, the more realistic...
...Mussolinis and neurasthenic Hitlers to war-racked skeletons, the bums and shady politicians of St. Louis' own legendary Rat Alley. Fellow cartoonists took their hats off to Fitzpatrick's slick technique of getting his points over without capsizing his cartoons with explanatory captions. Fitzpatrick's muscular draftsmanship and Doré-like spaciousness (see cut) are, if not art, something close...
Even though the sketches are drawn with the author's powerless member, some of them still are meritorious. Unfortunately, though, they lack the finesse and the draftsmanship that has marked some of the artist's earlier work. The vitality is there, but in subdued form. Dahl's Botticellian touch with the chiaroscuro and his treatment of perspective seem to have suffered during his incapacity. His sure touch at drawing out his subjects' characters with deft touches of his pen stayed with him, it is true, but his sense of color seemed to leave him entirely...