Word: draftsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kooning is a traditional kind of draftsman, and his work with pencil or crayon always pursues an active, symbiotic relationship with his paintings. Drawing explores and refines but does not quite fix an inventory of shapes that eventually find their way onto the canvas. It is a way of keeping the choices open by profuse addition. Now this process of working from drawings into paintings was not much to the fore in abstract expressionism. For Pollock to do a preliminary sketch for one of his drip paintings would have subverted their aesthetic intent, since the web of form depended...
...them one on top of the other, study the composite drawing that appears on top, make a drawing from this, reverse it, tear it in half, and put it on top of still another drawing." What this show indicates most clearly about De Kooning's enormous output as draftsman is that he managed to synthesize the painstaking approach to drawing that he learned as an art student in Rotterdam with the demands of spontaneity, which, by temperament, he deeply felt. This brilliant resolution now seems to be one of the coupling points at which the continuity between past...
...much exaggeration of having visited the Louvre 50,000 times. (By the same token, Giacometti's complaints about the difficulty of making any kind of a mark on paper only become intelligible when they are recognized as uttered by a man who was arguably the best living European draftsman in the 1960s, Picasso not excluded...
...canvas, brushing against its edges in such a way that within the bald format there is no dead space. Kelly's paintings are pervaded by a subtly indicated force, a sense of form working under confinement at several points above normal pressure. That Kelly is a most able draftsman can easily be seen from his pencil drawings of leaves and fruit - but in the abstract mode, he draws like a virtuoso. The decisiveness of the arc in Blue Curve, V, 1973, is (when seen in its large, actual size - it is about 6 ft. by 9 ft.) breathtaking...
...desperately, he filled out a routine application. It was forwarded to Finch, then the HEW Secretary. He hired Gray as his executive assistant, and Gray proved to be just the kind of administrator that the less organized Finch needed. Gray generally worked standing up at a high draftsman's type of table rather than a desk. He ate lunch in the office, jogged...