Word: draughtsmanship
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...DINE HAS concentrated more and more on traditional draughtsmanship in recent years, gradually abandoning the addition of real objects to his paintings, he has also become increasingly willing to deal with the human figure directly rather than through the metaphor of tools or the substitution of an article of clothing, such as a pair of boots or a bathrobe, for the person. 8 Sheets for an Undefined Novel, a suite of etchings done in 1976 of single figures in black ink on soft gray paper, are among the most beautiful works in the show. The seated and half-length figures...
OTHER students concentrate on more traditional, though terribly exacting, struggles with draughtsmanship and realism. Sarah Holly Alderman's "Undergrowth" is an incredibly dense and detailed drawing full of grasses and ferns and wild plants. Her background tree stump floats a little in space, but the range of textures she gets out of her pencil is truly admirable. And Steve Selkowitz's "Mantis," my favorite sculpture in the show, is actually a three-dimensional kind of draughtsmanship. A yard-long praying mantis that waits high on a wall, the piece is built of soldered wires-lines in space-and is disconcertingly...
Degas, unlike most other artists of his time, was firmly entrenched in the great tradition of classical French draughtsmanship. It may come as a revelation to many that beneath his pretty colors he was the self-proclaimed inheritor of that archetype of neoclassicism, Ingres. Why, then, did he find so "unworked" a medium as the monotype suitable to his purposes...
...order to free himself as much as he desired from the classical constraints of his innate sense of line. With a rag he was able to wipe away ink and compose in broad spaces. Privately modeling in this medium, as in the sculpture, Degas was able to counterbalance his draughtsmanship and realize form and volume. Publicly, the result was the marvelously transitory, captured, psychological quality of his work. This sense of spontaneity made him among the first to utilize in his paintings the nature of the then infant process of photography...
...view is that his good ideas and draughtsmanship are limited by his oldfashioned, mushy medium and his refusal to stoop to symbolism...