Word: draughtsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everyone who has seen it to make it the McCrady trademark. He has continued to do beautifully colored and dramatic canvases of small Southern towns and cotton country, is now at work on a picture called Judgment Day which will contain no less than 500 figures. An obviously gifted draughtsman, McCrady gets his luminous effects by "under-painting," working in transparent color glazes on a warm, umber ground. Tender, fully imagined, though not profound, his Negro paintings appear as authentically melodious as the Kansas paintings of John Steuart Curry are authentically robust...
...hall devoted to "Insults to the Honor of German War Heroes" were several etchings by Draughtsman Otto Dix, who ranks with Grosz for his skilled and brutal memories of trench fighting (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). Another section oddly entitled "The Mocking of Christianity" displayed Emil Nolde's Christ and the Thieves which the National Gallery in Berlin bought for $10,000 in 1930. There were also "A Peasant Scene from a Jewish Point of View," "The Manifestation of the Soul of the Jewish Race" and a group called "The Derision of the German Women." But the greater part...
When Chrysler draughtsmen organized a Society of Designing Engineers, C. A. C. furnished a draughtsman-agent to join the union, report on its meetings. Twenty members were shortly discharged. Remaining members, a Society official testified last week, were so terrorized that they had stopped attending meetings, were mailing their dues...
...take possession of it," and "close down any steel or automobile plant in the country." Humorist Robert Benchley was represented with a wry piece on international conferences, the New York World-Telegram's Radio Editor Alton Cook sarcastically "exposed" Major Bowes and his Amateur Hour. Fred Cooper, star draughtsman of the late Life, did one of his oldtime two-page spreads on "Winter...
Surrealism suited his extraordinary technical facility as a draughtsman, his morbid nature. Salvador Dali, with exquisite drawing and brilliant color, began to paint his nightmares on pieces of panel hardly bigger than postcards. He not only made surrealist paintings, he wrote surrealist poems, helped produce the first two surrealist films: Le Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or. The first had a great deal to do with pianos filled with carcasses of dead donkeys. In the latter the great seduction scene to which the whole film rises is symbolized by a view of a bedroom window through which...