You can point to a zillion influences in these pictures, but this is true of most of the new painting coming around these days, which is why so much of it looks like well-schooled, craftsmanly busy-work. |
And despite their small internal scale, they never give a feeling of bittiness or craftsmanly meticulousness. |
Though craftsmanly, smooth, and committed, in the main, they nonetheless seem underimagined. |
Where more craftsmanly architects have sometimes struggled to make sense of the Serpentine commission, the gallery's inner bling this year meets BIG's not-so-secret showmanship. |
They shared a craftsmanly, neatness-counts aesthetic, and they used the illusion of realism to create an ideally ordered alternative world. |