Sentences with phrase «for draughtsmanship»

Born in Waterford, he studied drawing and painting in the Dublin Society schools, where he won a medal for draughtsmanship in 1779.

[3] Despite having left school with no formal qualifications, he managed to gain employment as an apprentice working at an electrical components firm, where he discovered an ability for draughtsmanship and began to do painting at evening classes [4] at Saint Martin's School of Art and at the Westminster School of Art.

Not exact matches

This autumn, Pallant House Gallery is giving you the rare opportunity to see Dame Paula Rego's preparatory drawings for her paintings, providing an insight into her remarkable draughtsmanship and the development of her ideas.

Noble may be a little too sexual, scatological and indeed soulless for some tastes, but I personally enjoy both the intricacy of his draughtsmanship and the magnitude of his Bosch - like vision.

Apart from Roger Hiorns's crystal concoctions, this year's nominees share a passion for often ephemeral and fragmentary draughtsmanship, writes Adrian Searle

His extraordinary draughtsmanship and mastery of chiaroscuro (light and shadow), allied to his affinity for still life colour and composition undoubtedly make him one of Europe's top contemporary artists.

Ingres would perhaps be the most apt comparison for this, for it has the same sensitive and lucid draughtsmanship, but in colour, atmosphere, and, above all, quality of paint, arguably it surpasses anything which Ingres ever did.

The First Prize, awarded to Gary Lawrence for his detailed ballpoint pen drawing, Homage to Anonymous (2011), acknowledges the traditional medium of draughtsmanship.

It's what I call «pure art», because it's pure draughtsmanship: there's no need for any «artist statement», because it speaks for itself.

In the catalogue for his 1978 Arts Council, Hayward Gallery exhibition, an art critic wrote: «in spite of the excessive piling on of paint, the effect of these works on the mind is of images recovered and reconceived in the barest and most particular light, the same light that seems to glow through the late, great, thin Turners... an unpremeditated manifestation arising from the constant application of true draughtsmanship.»

It seems to me that neither Newman, Rothko nor Pollock was possessed of remarkable natural facility, yet each went on to achieve far more than, say, Adolf Gottlieb, William Baziotes or Robert Motherwell, whose adept and characterful draughtsmanship and feel for their materials made the process of invention a less urgent and precipitous task.