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Towering above them is Rembrandt van Rijn, the greatest Dutch artist of the 17th century and one of half a dozen supreme draftsmen in the history of the West. The show contains ten Rem brandt drawings, and to see them in the context of work by his more gifted students is to be reminded of the difficulties of attribution. They imitated just what, one would think, was inimitable in his style: Ferdinand Bol, for instance, got Rembrandt's quick hooking line down so pat that he reproduced it unconsciously. They could not, however, approach the beautiful, sure clarity with...
...show's weakness is its monotony. Director Hoving, who was obliged to step in as his own guest curator when the Met's curator of 20th century art, Henry Geldzahler, refused to touch the show, has given Wyeth the kind of treatment that only major draftsmen merit. Each painting is surrounded by a flock of its studies and sketches that reveal the working method, the small adjustments, tunings and abstractions that come between the first view and the final painting. If Wyeth were Rubens the spectacle would be fascinating. But since he seems to work upward from illustration...
...King says that membership is roughly one-third workers, secretaries, and draftsmen in scientific establishments; one-third high school science teachers, computer programmers, and technicians; and one-third academics and professionals, including industry scientists, professors and students. Within SftP, academic or professional credentials carry no status or privileges...
...boom has already wiped outmost vestiges of the deep downturn that hit the industry about the time of the Arab oil embargo in late 1973. At the bottom of the slide early last year, about one-fifth of the industry's work force-some 273,000 assemblers, draftsmen, accountants, middle managers -were out of work. Now auto joblessness is down to 30,000 and still dropping. Even so, the industry cannot produce the most popular models fast enough to satisfy demand. Inventories that for some makes hit a 150-day supply in early 1975 are now down...
Albert Alcalay, lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, disagreed with Wayne on the importance of improving printmaking, because he said it first needed good draftsmen...