Word: draughtsmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Canadian artists were servants of the French Catholic Church, and their painting never strayed from portraiture and religious subjects. After the French surrendered Canada to the British in 1760, matter-of-fact British colonials and their wives introduced English draughtsmanship. Towns and landscapes began to be painted as simple reports on life in a new colony...
Disney Technique. Movie audiences will see in Victory an odd blending of 1) pure Disney cartoon fun, 2) the action, draughtsmanship and color of his feature-length films, 3) superbly contrived maps and animated diagrams, 4) perhaps too much of Seversky in a handsome office, driving home his arguments...
...arrival in the U.S. last year); one scene of Russian village life in Russia; and one study of a cow in a high state of discoloration, the same animal Chagall painted 30 years ago from something he thought he saw in Paris. Remarkable for Chagall was the sensitive draughtsmanship of a new Descent from the Cross...
...serious landscape art. Last week Hollywood's Frank Perls Gallery was exhibiting the results of Cartoonist Gross's latest venture into fine art: 30 drawings of homely, tumbledown western farm and mining-town scenes. Artist Gross's work was conventional. It had some of the dashing draughtsmanship, little of the nutty imagination shown in his comic strippery. Five drawings were sold. The buyers: Cinemactors Charles Laughton and Thomas Mitchell, Producer Jed Harris...
...found him on the doorstep of his home. At Springfield's Illinois State Museum, Skeezix's birthday was celebrated with an exhibition of Cartoonist King's original Skeezix drawings. They showed that, in the course of some 34,000 pictures of Skeezix, Cartoonist King's draughtsmanship had grown almost as much as Skeezix himself...