Word: draftsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bakshi had any genuine skill as a satirist or draftsman, these spiritual descendants of the Uncle Remus characters might have become participants in the sort of Swiftian drama he apparently intended. There are hints here and there of a desire to demonstrate that black street styles are not stereotypes at all but put-ons. Such disguises can-sometimes-help individuals to get at least some of what they want with out permitting a hostile world to know that they are trying. Bakshi's sensibility is too vulgar for such an exercise. With a newspaper storm breaking around...
...restored in the wildernesses of the new world. No wonder Hicks looks so quaint in 1975. For 50 years since his "rediscovery," he has been thought to be the best of all American primitive painters whose works survive from the 19th century-not because he was a great instinctive draftsman like the Douanier Rousseau but because his whole way of imagining the world derives from a hope about human nature that is peculiarly and particularly American. If that view -along with the religious view that supported it-is now nearly as dead as the moon, it remains an aspiration that...
Died. George Baker, 59, creator of the World War II cartoon anti-hero Sad Sack; of cancer; in Los Angeles. A draftsman at Walt Disney studios, Baker found his vocation only after joining the Army in 1941. His haplessly snafued Sad Sack became the image of the downtrodden G.I. doomed to a perpetual losing battle with his own top sergeants. Said Baker: "Many people lead a life of disappointment in one way or another. Nobody is completely happy or contented...
...paradoxes about De Kooning the draftsman is that his pencil, in movement, is always describing contour, even though the shapes one infers from the contours are rarely closed or fixed. His early pencil portrait drawings from 1940-41, done 15 years after he smuggled himself into America, are manifestly homages to Ingres-or, more precisely, to Ingres as filtered through Picasso. But that sense of exact and probing contour was not dissipated by De Kooning's progressive moves toward abstraction. Instead, it was reinforced. The line in Abstraction, circa 1945, knows exactly where it is going and what...
...between painting and drawing; line turns out to be equal to brush mark in its power to suggest density, friction, displacement, tactility and all the other signs by which we recognize the life of forms. It seems likely that in the future, De Kooning's originality as a draftsman will be seen to reside in his power to cross the bound aries of category and process: painting as drawing as painting...