Word: draftsmanship
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Whatever the changes of direction and emphasis, some of De Kooning's qualities have remained constant. One of them is a power of draftsmanship that though it falters now and then, is at its best unequaled among living American artists. This and the recent sculpture (TIME, Oct. 23, 1972) are celebrated in a show of 126 drawings and pastels and 25 bronzes, organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which opened last week at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. It will later be seen at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Albright-Knox Art Gallery...
...simplicity. Starting with the Bernoulli effect (which explains how sailboats move to windward), the book ends with anchoring, having passed through everything from knots to points of sail, from rigging to docking, from man-overboard drills to the rough-weather practice of heaving to. On small craftsmanship and sheer draftsmanship Adkins is hard to beat...
Copley's pictures are not intended to be seen as mere gags, of course. His adaptation of the bold black line and super-simple draftsmanship of the early comics predates Pop. Of late, he has developed bright geometric patterns as an effective foil for his figures. Neither as disturbing as the Surrealists nor as incisive as some Pop artists, he yet fills a niche in which form and humor are as indispensable to each other as wit and word in a limerick. "I see painting as poetry," he says. "Humor, after all is the reminder that we are mortal...
Indeed the Fogg has made a scholarly contribution to art history-recreating the draftsmanship and the atelier of Giambattista-but by contrasting the works of Degas with Tiepolo the Fogg could have contemporized the exhibit: Tiepolo's aloof world of the religious could have been viewed in comparison to Degas' off-stage world of the dancer. Degas' attempt to take the viewer backstage, to remove the dancer from her idealized position, would complement Tiepolo's pedestal art. A single color cannot evoke the vibrations that two juxtaposed complementary colors...
...more," Bernhard Jager complained. "Everything begins to move on this picture. The ears of a wolf turn into a burning pine forest." Artist Gerhard Hoehme observed: "The paper in front of me turned into a room in which I became lost." Michael Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi watched his precise draftsmanship disintegrate into chaos...