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Writing Challenge: Day 6
By: Nikola Date: July 12, 2019, 5:11 pm
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We'll be writing about art today.
Choose a painting, any painting you like, and write something
about it.
If you can, please post a picture with your entry. Or, if you
post a link, I can do it for you.
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Re: Writing Challenge: Day 6
By: Chizuko hanji Date: July 12, 2019, 11:18 pm
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I left my phone on the train!
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Re: Writing Challenge: Day 6
By: Aliph Date: July 13, 2019, 2:00 am
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I will choose the painting uploaded by Nikola, one of my
favorite paintings of early Renaissance.
The Arnolfini Portrait is one of the most emblematic painting of
the fifteenth century and someday I might fly to London to see
it at the National Gallery .
It was painted by Jan Van Eyck in 1434.
It portrays the couple of Giovanni Arnolfini and Costanza
Trenta, the first wife of Arnolfini who died trying to give
birth to a child the following year.
Art historians comment that it was the first time that a
bourgeois couple was portrayed on canvas by a famous painter.
This privilege was reserved until then to the aristocracy.
Arnolfini was a wealthy merchant born in Lucca in Tuscany. He
had established a flourishing business in Flanders. He traded
silk and expensive garments in Bruges . Costanza originally was
also from Lucca but had lived in Paris until she met her future
husband.
The portrait of this couple it is a testimonial of the emerging
of a new social class of entrepreneurs and merchants and the
passage from the feudalistic order of the late Middle Ages to
the beginning of capitalism in the following centuries.
Some observers might think that Costanza was pregnant. She
wasn’t. Her dress was simply fashionable at that time, women
wore dresses with a high waistline just under their breasts.
Other paintings of that period show the Virgin Mary or some
saints of the catholic tradition with similar garments.
Interesting is also the presence of a mirror in the upper center
of the painting. In the mirror one can see a picture with
different human figures opposite the couple. The man dressed in
red is said to be Van Eick himself. It is a kind of signature by
the painter. The author portrays the intimacy of the Arnolfini.
He isn’t merely an external spectator but an actor who examines
the relationship of this bourgeois couple and the birth of a new
social class based on work and entrepreneurship.
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Re: Writing Challenge: Day 6
By: Chizuko hanji Date: July 13, 2019, 5:21 am
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I rewrote it below.
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Re: Writing Challenge: Day 6
By: Chizuko hanji Date: July 13, 2019, 5:38 am
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Oh, that guy...s**t, he never gives me tips. Oh, he is with a
woman...looks much younger than him. Is she dating him? or a
business? Oh well, I don't care. Anyway, I have to get away from
this job. I'm fed up with drunk people. Previous job, a
waitress, was easy but the pay wasn't good, it sucks. The shop
keeper before the waitress was terrible. I don't want to
remember the face, gorilla-boss.
Um...
Hi, how's it going? oh, you got a company tonight, such a
beautiful lady. What would like to do, no, I mean, to drink?
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Re: Writing Challenge: Day 6
By: Nikola Date: July 13, 2019, 8:49 am
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A Bigger Grand Canyon ist ein Gemälde des britischen Malers
David Hockney. Es besteht aus 60 Leinwände. Hockney hat es nach
seiner Reise nach Grand Canyon gemalt. Er hatte sich damals
ziemlich klaustrophobisch gefühlt und wollte in einem offenen
Raum sein.
Das Gemälde zeigt Grand Canyon aus mehreren Standpunkten und zu
verschiedenen Tageszeiten. Es ist eigentlich eine Collage, die
von kubistischen Malern inspiriert wurde. Hockney hat dabei
seine eigenen Photos, die er sechzehn Jahren davor gemacht
hatte, benutzt.
Ich mag Hockneys leuchtende Farben, die warme und kühle Tönen
nebeneinander und, genau wie den Autor, mich fasziniert die
große offene Fläche und die Einzigartigkeit des Ortes.
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Re: Writing Challenge: Day 6
By: Alharacas Date: July 13, 2019, 9:30 am
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[quote author=Nikola link=topic=1225.msg17935#msg17935
date=1563025763]
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A Bigger Grand Canyon ist ein Gemälde des britischen Malers
David Hockney. Es besteht aus 60 Leinwänden. Hockney hat es nach
seiner Reise [s]nach[/s] zum Grand Canyon gemalt. Er hatte sich
damals ziemlich klaustrophobisch gefühlt und wollte in einem
offenen Raum* sein.
*much better: in der freien Natur. You see, [i]ein Raum is
usually still a room, i.e. something finite, mostly enclosed by
walls, unless it's der Weltraum. Yes, we do talk about an
artist's use of space and can say "Raum" in that context
(meaning the space available/used for/shown by a work of
art/painting), but calling a place like the Grand Canyon
"offener Raum" sounds a bit weird, sorry. :)
[/i]
Das Gemälde zeigt den Grand Canyon aus mehreren
[s]Standpunkten[/s] Perspektiven und zu verschiedenen
Tageszeiten. Es ist eigentlich eine Collage, die von
kubistischen Malern inspiriert wurde. Hockney hat dabei besser:
dafür seine eigenen Photos, die er sechzehn Jahren davor gemacht
hatte, benutzt.
Ich mag Hockneys leuchtende Farben, die warmen und kühlen
Töne[s]n[/s] nebeneinander und, genau wie den [s]Autor[/s]
Maler/Künstler, mich fasziniert die große offene Fläche und die
Einzigartigkeit des Ortes*.
[/quote]
*There is more than one problem in the underlined bit, sorry. On
the one hand, there is word order, which should be "fasziniert
(auch) mich". On the other, there is our dislike for effectively
starting a sentence the way you did here, with "genau wie den
Maler". It makes us pause and think "wait a moment, shouldn't
that be 'genau wie der Maler'?" and then the rest makes it
allright, yes, but we'd rather not. ;) That's why ideally, you'd
use a passive construction here, which would allow you to start
the way you did, but actually use "der Maler" in the nominative:
"genau wie der Maler bin auch ich fasziniert von der großen,
offenen Fläche und der Einzigartigkeit des Ortes".
Alternatively, you could keep the active tense, but change the
order: "und auch mich fasziniert die große bla-bla-ba, genau wie
den Maler." :)
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Re: Writing Challenge: Day 6
By: Nikola Date: July 13, 2019, 10:46 am
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[quote author=Alharacas link=topic=1225.msg17937#msg17937
date=1563028220]
*There is more than one problem in the underlined bit, sorry. On
the one hand, there is word order, which should be "fasziniert
(auch) mich". On the other, there is our dislike for effectively
starting a sentence the way you did here, with "genau wie den
Maler". It makes us pause and think "wait a moment, shouldn't
that be 'genau wie der Maler'?" and then the rest makes it
allright, yes, but we'd rather not. ;) That's why ideally, you'd
use a passive construction here, which would allow you to start
the way you did, but actually use "der Maler" in the nominative:
"genau wie der Maler bin auch ich fasziniert von der großen,
offenen Fläche und der Einzigartigkeit des Ortes".
Alternatively, you could keep the active tense, but change the
order: "und auch mich fasziniert die große bla-bla-ba, genau wie
den Maler." :)
[/quote]
Thank you. I did wonder if I would get away with the last
sentence :) It didn't occur to me to use the passive
construction. It makes sense.
The only thing I'd be a bit reluctant to say is "in der freien
Natur", unless Natur has a much broader meaning than "nature". I
wouldn't want it to sound like he wanted to be in nature. He
just needed some open space. Sorry for being so fussy :)
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Re: Writing Challenge: Day 6
By: Aliph Date: July 13, 2019, 11:31 am
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[right]‎بورتريه
ارنولفيني
‎تم رسم
صورة
أرنولفيني
الرسام
الفلمندي
جان فان
إيك في عام
١٤٣٤.
‎
تَتَعَرَّ&
#1590;
لِلجمهور
في مَتحف
المعرض
الوطني في
لندن.اللوح
ة
إنها
تُظْهِر
زوجان ،
زوج وزوجة
، من أصل
إيطالي.
كان الزوج
تاجرًا
لِالقمشة
الحريرية
والملابس
غالية في
مدينة بروج
الفلمنكية.
‎كانت هذه
هي أوال
مرة التي
رَسَمَ
رسام مشهور
صورة من
زوجين لم
يكون من
عائلة
نبيلة او
من أصل
الأميرية[/right]
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Re: Writing Challenge: Day 6
By: Nikola Date: July 13, 2019, 12:07 pm
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La lettrice
La lettrice è un dipinto di Jean-Honoré Fragonard. C'è una donna
in un vestito giallo. Lei legge un libro piccolo. Secondo
diverse fonti non si conosce questa donna, ma la ricerca nuova
ha rivelato che è dalla Gran Bretagna, le piace il mango (da qui
il vestito giallo) ed è una esperta linguista.
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