Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

El más pintor de los pintores

English translation:

The most painterly of painters

Added to glossary by Owen Munday
Sep 10, 2009 14:39
14 yrs ago
Spanish term

El más pintor de los pintores

Spanish to English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting Biography
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El más pintor de los pintores consigue desmontar los tópicos sobre la especie: vive y trabaja en uno de los muchos barrios de la periferia de NNN (a parte del Casco Antiguo, en NNN todo es periferia) en un pequeño ático que ha pasado de hogar doméstica a ser espacio de trabajo con la más absoluta de las normalidades y, además, trabaja con regularidad y precisión, sin exabruptos ni altibajos considerables, fiel a una concepción del arte que encuentra en la rutina precisa su mejor expresión.
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Sep 13, 2009 10:04: Owen Munday Created KOG entry

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The painters' painter / The most painterly of painters

A couple of ideas to get the ball rolling.
Peer comment(s):

agree Lucy Williams : Exactly what sprang to my mind
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agree Evans (X) : Both these suggestions are good, though they each mean something different. The second was the one that first sprang to my mind in the context.
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agree Yasutomo Kanazawa
3 mins
agree Rebecca Hendry : I like the second option.
7 mins
agree David Ronder : Yes, most painterly of painters
31 mins
agree Jenni Lukac (X) : I go for the second as well.
32 mins
agree Robert Copeland
57 mins
agree Bubo Coroman (X) : second option
1 hr
agree María Luz Iglesias : second... nice ;)
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a painter's painter

This is my take on it, although it would involve restructuring the sentence slightly, since you wouldn't say "The painter's painter will..." It would have to be something more along the lines of "A painter's painter, he will..."
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2 hrs

...A painter among painters...

Prince Among Painters and A Painter Among Princes - winner of 1873 Vienna Exhibition at the age of 25. Saraswati by Raja Ravi Varma Lakshmi by Raja Ravi ...
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Painting: Modern Movements - [ Traducir esta página ]The community in London, if small, remains a vital and active one in sculpture, installation work and painting; among the painters special mention must be ...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-09-10 16:54:38 GMT)
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Another option. :))
eski
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6 hrs

painter of all painters

6 Mar 2009 ... Girl, you are the master painter of all painters! I am constantly impressed by your talent. Just for that, you have an award awaiting you ...
themagicbrushinc.blogspot.com/.../ceilings-that-wow.html

To many great contemporary artists, such as Per Kirkeby and H. Voigt-Steffensen he is quite an icon, thus the nickname “the Painter of all Painters”. ...
www.obro-artgallery.com/biographies.htm
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8 hrs

the maximum painter/über painter

a different tack to consider...
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