Word: draughtsmanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publicity. Not since 1909 has his photograph appeared in U.S. public prints. Hardly a soul among his admirers knows that he began life 59 years ago as the son a business-like London gentleman who set him to work in an insurance office. Or that now, having perfected his draughtsmanship until it is a byword, he lives amid Sussex downs with a wife who also draws, in a cottage of crazy-quilt architecture, under an old beech, an elm, and near a business-like workroom devoid of all "arty" furnishings. Sitting at his drawing board with his round, glittering spectacles...
...city to buy complete painter's equipment, none of the names for which had Augustin ever before known. Back in his cottage, he painted-or rather a spirit within him did, who signed the canvases "Leonardo da Vinci"-exotic decorative designs, Oriental arabesques of rich color and a draughtsmanship at once high- ly technical and naive. An impartial critic described the work as looking "like the work of the great master executed during an attack of de-lirium...
...really serious work of the cartoonists is a tribute to the Fine Arts Department. In fact, the drawings are the best part of the paper and entitle it to serious consideration as an expression of undergraduate draughtsmanship. Since the Lampoon is the only publication we have that is open to the Fine Arts, it naturally attracts the best talent in the University. The portraits of Professor Kittredge, Professor Baker, H. T. Parker, Walter Hampden and other interpreters of the drama, the realistic studies of life in the gymnasium, and the seductive portrait of a pre-Raphaelite pet called Gladys cannot...
Orpen's principal preoccupations appear to be draughtsmanship and " balance " of composition. Touching the non-graphic arts only in the sculpture of Donatello and Michelangelo and the reliefs of Ghiberti, the book scarcely fulfills its inclusive title. Orpen strives to be religiously impersonal in his praise, but his painter's predilections for Botticelli, Giorgione, Moroni, Lotto, Holbein, Hals, Velasquez, Vermeer, Chardin, Hogarth, Raeburn, Richard Wilson, shine through. Conspicuously omitted from mention is Andrea del Sarto...
...modernist painting, about which both laity and the profession rage, is not painting at all. It is " the art of color " and has developed by a historical accident through the medium of oil, pigment and canvas, to which it bears no essential relation. The true, traditional painting is pictorial draughtsmanship. Its tools are line and mass, black, white and gray. Its function is decoration in public and private buildings. It reached its apex in Rubens (1577-1640), and since then no fundamental advances have been made - merely improvements in method, conquests of technical problems, emotionally impotent. To the great masters...