Word: draftsmanship
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...Europe. Among the hundreds of hopefuls who arrived there m 1900 at the dewy dawn of a destructive century, 19-year-old Pablo Picasso was remarkable for his impressionability, his facility his profound self-confidence. Standing one day in admiration before a painting by Toulouse-Lautrec, whose bold draftsmanship and garish atmosphere he was then busily imitating, he was heard to murmur, "All the same, I paint better than he does...
...schools and generations. Born in Philadelphia, he began his career as an illustrator for Philadelphia newspapers. McClure's Magazine sent him to Cuba to sketch the Spanish-American War, as Harper's had sent Winslow Homer to cover the Civil War. In toughness, gaiety and all-round draftsmanship, his illustrations, of which the Whitney last week exhibited 35, stood with those of his most gifted Realist contemporaries, John Sloan, Robert Henri, George Luks...
...Demuth home in Lancaster, Pa. The Demuth tobacco business in Lancaster, founded by a German forebear in 1770. is still carried on there by the family. Artist Demuth studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and for several years in Paris, was affected by Cezanne, the draftsmanship of Toulouse-Lautrec and later by the color experiments of the cubists. For his own pleasure, not for publication, he did a series of watercolor illustrations, notably six for Zola s Nana, four for Henry James's Turn of the Screw, which Critic Henry McBride of the New York...
...ablest figure painter in America," is at least one of the ablest and most forceful draftsmen of the nude in the U. S. At last week's exhibition his portrait heads, still lifes and landscapes were unexceptionable, but several of his nudes showed that his rapid, unerring draftsmanship has not faded with the years...
...interplay of muscle and shadow. On view were an infuriated elephant, with eyes bulging out of its head; grave, long-fingered, acrobatic monkeys; a Dartmoor pony standing in ferns that look like fossil prints; an old Zebu bull with mountainous shoulders; a leopard which is almost pure draftsmanship without substance. A formalized antelope reminded visitors of the wall drawings of Cro-Magnon cave men. A group of storks and herons seemed to be millions of years old, to show atavistic traces of reptilian ancestry...