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...developed by 15th century draftsmen, perspective is a set of rules that enables the artist to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane by making his structural lines converge at an imaginary "vanishing point" on an imaginary horizon at the viewer's eye level...
...Nesbitt shows, artists in 1968 are more likely to litter their workbenches with draftsmen's tools than with paint rags, to trim their walls with Surveyor's lunar photographs than with models of the Venus de Milo. But each artist still reflects his personal style in his habitat. George Sugarman, who creates boldly colored abstract sculptures, works in a spartan loft equipped with power sanders and gluepots. Claes Oldenburg's huge apartment is in a perpetual clutter because, as Nesbitt points out, "Claes likes to have a lot of things around so he can stumble over them...
Lenckhardt's realistic anatomy owes much to pioneering Renaissance draftsmen like the 15th century Florentine Pollaiuolo (1432-98). The painter, sculptor and jeweler daringly studied and depicted muscles and organs of skinned cadavers in an era when the church still frowned on dissection. His Battle of Naked Men is essentially a swashbuckling anatomy lesson, with its mythological figures ingeniously posed to show off the male body in as many positions as possible. There is no question that Pollaiuolo, one of the earliest artists to try his hand at engraving, considered the finished work extraordinary. It was the first print...
...inventories of department stores on a few hours' notice. Tellers trained in a special Kelly program help banks in 40 cities get through Monday and Friday rush hours. And an IBM 360 computer at Kelly's Detroit headquarters keeps track of a roster of Kelly technicians, including draftsmen and engineers, chemists and commercial artists...
...tall in order to reach windshields. And-shades of TV's Josephine the plumber-women really are going into plumbing, because male plumbers are in short supply. Chicago's Checker Cab Co. has taken on 40 wom en drivers, and Deere & Co. of Moline, Ill., has women draftsmen, engineers and office managers. With even the supply of qualified women limited, some companies are going outside the U.S. for help. The Bendix Corp.'s Davenport, Iowa, plant, which last year went to England to hire eleven engineers, is now planning to go back to lure skilled blue-collar...