But it does nothing to persuade us that the artist, now 70, is anything other than a skillful copier of other images and objects.
Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic consultant in New York, called the book a skillful attempt to reinvent the image of a woman whose words and deeds in the White House were the subject of bewilderment and derision.
A skillful technician and inventive Neo-Pop image maker, Ms. Choi produces glossy panel paintings that use resin and reflective plastics to imitate traditional Asian lacquer work.
Dr. Willick, a member of Stanford's physics department since 1995, had a deep interest in astronomy and the structure of the universe and had developed a reputation among astrophysicists as a skillful interpreter of the data and images from telescopic observations of thousands of galaxies closest to Earth.
The creatives Tarrant tapped were asked to come up with an idea for a painting, provide reference images or instructions, and a skillful artist from the village would execute the piece.
Though there might be some more professional artifices such as scaling, rotation, brightening, blurring, and smoothing after splicing, a careful and skillful splicing image can avoid any obvious trace of manipulation even without any of those above post-operations.
Mostly cartoonish images of people, these works show the young Warhol as a skillful and witty illustrator; he could have been another David Hockney.
In the hands of a lesser songwriter, the lovey-dovey melodrama might get tedious, but Sade is a skillful lyricist; she skirts close to cliches but manages to alight on the telling, touching image.
"Matt is a skillful editor.
Perry is a skillful communicator.
