Word: draughtsmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retrospect, not for the emotion which once seemed so audacious but for the poetic discipline which controlled that emotion. Nothing highlights the situation more clearly than the early works of Paul Klee. The etchings Head of Menace and Virgin in a Tree are works of quality and excellent draughtsmanship, yet their overbearing concern for the histrionics of their subject matter works against them. Moreover, the later Klees in the exhibit avoid histrionics, as their subject matter is relegated to a whimsical leitmotif, subordinated to the wholly poetic studies in color and shape. This latter group incidentally has long represented Klee...
...teens with the pursuit of autographs. The drawings include one of the few fourteenth century drawings to be found in this country, and a superb one at that. Here are works by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens, Brueghel, Durer, and a little gem by Poussin, all of which are exquisite draughtsmanship in the highest sense of the word...
...style. It seemed to me however that she strives too much for a decorative effect. There is something about her crowd figures reminiscent of Reginald Marsh, without his strength or skill. Anne Lord's pen and ink drawings of horses would be better done on white paper. Though the draughtsmanship is wiry and supple. Uninteresting and imprecise line, undermines the efforts of Judy Kuznets to create an effect with watercolor wash over ink. I found her Accordion Player and Mother and Child shapeless to my imagination. The idea, however, is a good one. Yoshi Shimizu's ink drawings are among...
...established styles. In paintings covering three years he goes through Van Gogh, Oriental, Cubistic and Miroesque phases. He has some fine ideas, resting boats by the water's edge or a montage of wrapped heads beside a chinese tower. But these are weakened in their effectiveness by poor draughtsmanship, muddy colors and slovenly design...
...find much of his garish fantasy a little too theatrical, perhaps better suited to a New Yorker cover than a New York museum, Berger does have a good deal to say even in the atmospheric mist of his paintings. He also displays not only creative color sense but fine draughtsmanship. The economy of line and airiness of the ivory and sepia study Mother and Child are examples of the almost oriental sensitivity and skill of understatement of which he is capable...