I know I was always upset about with the lack of craftsmanship in the fine arts.
We are lacking lots of things, we lack the knowledge of craftsmanship which we need to restore them truly, this knowledge has been lost with our forefathers, so we lack, if you like, technical manpower.
More than that, they lack craftsmanship, the intricate, personal flourishes that distinguish one building from another, one player from another.
One problem for the business reader is that too many of the authors aren't gifted writers; they are chief executives, professors and experts in their field, and the lack of professional craftsmanship shows.
If "The Salesman" feels like a lesser achievement than Farhadi's "About Elly," "The Past" and his Oscar-winning masterwork, "A Separation," it may be because it lacks the dizzyingly intricate craftsmanship of those films, which functioned like humanist detective stories: Ingeniously plotted and endlessly multifaceted, they were Hitchcockian thrillers by way of Jean Renoir.
Many young composers were impressed by Mr. Xenakis's sense of music as pure sound, but other musicians, notably Pierre Boulez, detected a lack of craftsmanship.
She was also a friend of many Victorian artists, poets and thinkers, many of whom she photographed in a dreamy, soft-focused manner that was often condemned by her contemporaries for its lack of craftsmanship.
Was the craftsmanship there?
The craftsmanship is magical.
