Word: draughtsmanship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...artistic hobby: that it should be fun. "I've seen so much death and suffering," says he, "I have to find diversion in painting." When he ceases to get any fun out of a picture, he throws it aside and does another one. Because he finds meticulous draughtsmanship a bore, he doesn't even bother to finish the faces in his figures, leaves them eyelessly blank. But the people in Surgeon Souchon's paintings need faces no more than a poem needs footnotes. Effusive and bubbling as Oldster Souchon himself, they make their point not by depicting...
...Luks and George Bellows could make an old applewoman look pathetic; young painters nowadays are more likely to make her look depraved. Somewhere between pathos and depravity lies the truth which would arouse fear and pity. For various reasons-preoccupation with design, premature austerity, honorable anger or plain bad draughtsmanship-few modern artists touch that particular truth...
...were taught, was recalled to Manhattanites by an exhibition at the Findlay Galleries of 30 paintings by Montparnassian Moise Kisling. A fiery Polish Jew, friend for 20 years of such notable scapegraces as Utrillo, 46-year-old Kisling surprised gallery-goers with his weight of opulent color and delicate draughtsmanship. Included were two nudes of Kiki, catlike Queen of the Paris models, who once called Kisling "the swellest guy in the world," now sings sailor songs in her own Paris cafe...
...brother is Novelist Captain David Bone) Muirhead Bone started life as a bank clerk in Glasgow. Drawing, and particularly etching, always interested him. Working alone and teaching himself, he etched two plates, took them down to London to sell. Instantly Dealers Colnogni & Co. recognized the effectiveness of his draughtsmanship, his forceful use of strong black shadows, bargained for all the etchings Bone could make. Muirhead Bone quit the bank, has never since failed to prosper...