The new design will undoubtedly look better than the present version, a clumsy hybrid of the work of two rivals, David Childs and Daniel Libeskind.
It amazes me that in France, the civilised custodian of so many of these masterpieces, they can still be treated like the work of supposedly clumsy and ignorant "cave men" – and therefore something that can be replaced by a mock cave.
A drawing known to be by Droeshout the elder appears t9o show superior artistic skill than the work of his nephew, and the clumsy features of the depiction of Shakespeare's body resemble other prints by Droeshout the Younger.
He welcomes the fact that they're the work of an artist still in formation, "clumsy paintings.
Compared with the work of Knight's most obvious competitor, Norman Rockwell, its composition is clumsy and brushwork inept.
I couldn't have called it a masterpiece or a great work of art, because I can see too clearly what's experimental or clumsy about it.
For the most part, this risky, seemingly clumsy artifice works.
(John Currin reportedly compared artists at Miami Basel to pigs in a sausage factory.) For my tastes, the greater aesthetic pleasures were found at the numerous off-site exhibitions that have cropped up around Miami Basel, though even here, amid cheaper, more conceptual work, the sometimes clumsy hand of capitalism proved difficult to elude.
Among the clumsiest of the works are recent collages incorporating fish and crab shapes cut from sheets of mica.
Perhaps it was simply "the clumsiest of all misunderstandings," as Thomas Mann wrote in 1947, that the works of this politically naïve and wholly spiritual figure somehow justified the Nazi assault on civilization.
