Word: draughtsman
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...Cassatt's paintings, turned with his slow, twisting smile to a companion. The remark was perhaps the highest compliment she everreceived-more satisfactory even than the one the Luxembourg paid her when it bought one of her paintings on behalf of the citizens of France. Degas, that superlative draughtsman, who alone of all painters has immortalized the beauty of awkwardness, knew what he was talking about. Miss Cassatt could draw. At that time she had not come under Degas' influence but had caught her inspiration from the floating, luminous figures of Correggio. "Maternity," "The Bath," "Mother...
Sargent was a great draughtsman and well equipped to champion, in a leveling age, the traditions of an imperious past. The Boston murals all treat classic subjects: Chiron teaching a very delicate Achilles how to handle a bow; Atlas stooping among the golden girls of the Hesperides; Hercules, with a billet the size of a railroad tie in his fist, fencing with the Hydra's ducking heads...
...making mud-pies; humpty-dumpty farmyard animals with four toothpicks and a chunk of modeling clay; naive nursery etchings-graphs of the thought-rhythms of potentially delinquent minds-these, the charivari of most children's exhibitions were notably absent. Instead, one child, 6, a musician and a draughtsman who had already given a public concert, reproduced the impression made by the auditorium upon the mind of a performing pianist-vast, silent gulfs of listening space in which the black instrument buzzed like a fly in a funnel. Another virtuoso had painted from memory his conception of a pterodactyl seen...
Painter vs. Draughtsman The Future of Painting-What Ingres Said...
...asked. What would Titian, Hals, Vermeer, Velasquez- colorists extraordinary-have said to the charge that color was only an incident to their art? Probably they would have replied in words not dissimilar to those of Ingres, when a visitor to his studio asked: " Does M. Ingres, the celebrated draughtsman, live here...