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English translation: art

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Italian term or phrase:	ricerca artistica
English translation:	art
Entered by:	brenda stone

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10:27 Dec 14, 2010

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Italian term or phrase: ricerca artistica

“Ricerca artistica” is an expression that has always given me problems and I have yet to find a translation from Italian to English that I really like.

I'm currently working on a text for an art gallery that talks about artists and their work. Below I've listed some instances that use this expression:

▪ come medium ideale per esprimere la loro RICERCA ARTISTICA
▪ affinchè collaborassero con i maestri per tradurre la loro RICERCA ARTISTICA nel linguaggio tridimensionale
▪ La sua RICERCA ARTISTICA ha attraversato varie fasi
▪ Fa riferimento al filone novecentesco che pone visivamente il tema del corpo come elemento centrale della RICERCA ARTISTICA.
▪ ha fatto del metallo il territorio privilegiato della sua RICERCA ARTISTICA

"Artistic research" just doesn’t sound very English to me. The other choices that I’ve tried are:

▪ artistic exploration
▪ artistic pursuit
▪ exploration of art
▪ artistic endeavor
▪ artistic experimentation
▪ artistic study
▪ artistic examination
▪ artistic investigation

But none of them have me jumping up and down. I've tried various combinations to find something more suitable here on ProZ but again nothing that seems to capture the sense of this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

brenda stone KudoZ activity Questions: 1 (none open) Answers: 1 Italy
Local time: 01:51

art

Explanation:
Another idea. Many translators go for a literal translation, especially when the emphasis is on study and experimentation. You don't always have to translated it the same way.
However:
'“Ricerca artistica” is an expression that has always given me problems and I have yet to find a translation from Italian to English that I really like.', that goes for me too.

Selected response from:

James (Jim) Davis
Italy
Local time: 01:51

Grading comment

Thanks for your help. Sometimes the answer is much simpler than we expect.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +1

art

James (Jim) Davis

4 +1

artistic vision

Joel Schaefer

4 +1

work

Tom in London

3 +2

(personal) style / (quest for) artistic expression

cynthiatesser

artistic quest

Diana Cimpric

art fieldwork

GianLuigi Miani

(quest for) artistic excellence

gallagy2

Answers

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

art

James (Jim) Davis
Italy
Local time: 01:51
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 145

Grading comment

Thanks for your help. Sometimes the answer is much simpler than we expect.

35 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

(personal) style / (quest for) artistic expression

Explanation:
You could use one or the other depending on which suits the context best

cynthiatesser
Italy
Local time: 01:51
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 8

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

work

Explanation:
yes - I'm not joking.

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Note added at 40 mins (2010-12-14 11:07:41 GMT)
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I come across this all the time "ricerca architettonica" "ricerca artistica" etc. All it means is "work". As with all kinds of work, it's implicit that thought, effort, and experimentation are involved.

Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:51
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 119

Notes to answerer

Asker: Hi, Tom. Thanks for your contribution. It's possible that I'm overanalyzing the expression and that it might be as simple as just translating it as "work". But reducing "ricerca artistica" to "work" alone seems to leave out all the thought, effort, and experimentation that an artist goes through to arrive at creating his/her work. Maybe the problem is that the meaning is not so succinct in English as it is in Italian. In any case, you've given me food for thought.

1 hr confidence:

art fieldwork

Explanation:
-----~ sul campo field study, fieldwork; (ricerca sul campo)

Calcolando il contesto credo che sia la traduzione più esatta , perchè si intenjde in realtà da una ricerca sul campo e di sperimentazione ...... che si rifa allo studio ed alle proprietà intellettive nel campo artistico....

GianLuigi Miani
Italy
Local time: 01:51
Native speaker of: Italian

1 hr confidence:

(quest for) artistic excellence

Explanation:
I had "quest for artistic expression" in mind BEFORE I saw Cynthia's entry, (just went googling in meantime) so this is just another option. I think 2
"quest" gives the idea of research.

I think some of your own options are good, especially if used with differing verbs like "translate", "showcase" or "show".

I particularly like artistic pursuit/endeavour and exploration and offer artistic +observations/evolution/generation/creativity as other options

gallagy2
Ireland
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 3

4 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

artistic vision

Explanation:
Approaching the expression from another angle; it seems to work in the examples you gave. I sympathize - artspeak is a slippery beast!

Joel Schaefer
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

1 day1 hr confidence:

artistic quest

Explanation:
By "artistic quest" we understand development of artists' expression and vision as a consequence of artists' inner search.

Hope it helps ;-)

Reference: http://www.fest21.com/en/blog/helen/maud_linders_artistic_qu...

Diana Cimpric
Local time: 01:51
Native speaker of:

Italian,

Slovenian

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