Detailist

In cost department work ability as a detailist is exceptionally desirable in the work of making entries.

Dr. Kober has always been a great detailist without being small or petty, a particularist without being narrow or prejudiced.

He is the scientist, not as particularizer and detailist, but as the forceful synthesizer of a truly vast amount of apparently unrelated objects, events, and structures.

The whole thing must have been rehearsed many times, for the detailist would overlook no detail.

The simple art of the detailist would compel him to draw every flower that he saw : the suggestive artist, with his more vigorous appeal to the imagination, would get the effect by setting a few in the immediate foreground, and still fewer scattered over the middle distance.

The detailist fills his canvas with work and interest; the full-souled painter concentrates his detail upon a few salient points.

His canvases are worked over with painstaking care, not as the detailist works to delineate buttons and boot-straps, but for harmonies of tender color and the charm of reflected light.

Impressionism is the generalizing of the subject-matter as a whole and the expression of only its salient features. The extreme realist or detailist of the Ruskin type has for years been insisting that a spade was a spade and should be painted to look like a spade; that a spade was not a spade until every nail in the handle and every crack in the blade became apparent.