Sentences with phrase «gifts as a draughtsman»

It «charts the powerful, straightforward story of an artist whose natural gift as draughtsman was second in the 20th century only to Picasso's», writes the Financial Times's critic Jackie Wullschlager.

«Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented», de Kooning famously once remarked, but in fact, these works grew out of an extended period of innovation in which that artist had deliberately attempted to subvert his prodigious gifts as a draughtsman in favour of newer, unconsciously made, but more vital marks.

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David Hockney RA, has distinguished himself throughout his long and successful career as a gifted draughtsman; his confidence and strength of line characterises his work from single line portrait studies, to large scale paintings of LA in the 60s.

They provide an insight into Hockney's remarkable versatility, from fax machine drawings to the iPad, and confirms his gift as a true draughtsman while Abstract Expressionism was king.