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Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / ceramics | | Spanish term or phrase: dibujó unos estudios [de cerdos] | | Barceló pintó un retrato de Barry Flanagan y es coleccionista de su obra – bronces y cerámica -. Flanagan dibujó, durante unas Matances, unos estudios de cerdos en la casa de Barceló en la Colònia de Sant Pere, pero no hemos logrado localizarlos. |
| | | drew some studies [of pigs] | Explanation:
I think the literal translation is the only correct one here. "Studies" in art are not necessarily sketches, though they will usually be less finished than formal works. They can even be paintings. The point is that they denote a process of discovery: the artist is visually studying the subject. They are nearly always without background, or with minimal background, and there are often several different views of the same subject. The point of them is to explore, from the life, visual features of the subject. Very often a study is conceived as a preparatory work for a painting or sculpture, like "estudio" in Spanish, but this is not always true, or not directly. They certainly don't have to be preliminary versions of the composition. They are like notes, that can and often will be used later.
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The word is very often used in relation to studies of human subjects: life studies. In this case, it's pigs rather than people, but the principle's the same.
Among Leonardo's drawings we find, on the one hand, "Study for the Sforza Monument" and "Study for the Head of Leda", for example, both examples of preparatory studies, and on the other, "Study of Arms and Hands", "Study of Horse and Rider", "Studies of the Shoulder and Neck", "Studies of Water passing Obstacles and falling", etc., which are visual exercises, designed to get the hang of how to depict things. I think these pig drawings are like that.
http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/ |
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Explanation:
I think the literal translation is the only correct one here. "Studies" in art are not necessarily sketches, though they will usually be less finished than formal works. They can even be paintings. The point is that they denote a process of discovery: the artist is visually studying the subject. They are nearly always without background, or with minimal background, and there are often several different views of the same subject. The point of them is to explore, from the life, visual features of the subject. Very often a study is conceived as a preparatory work for a painting or sculpture, like "estudio" in Spanish, but this is not always true, or not directly. They certainly don't have to be preliminary versions of the composition. They are like notes, that can and often will be used later.
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The word is very often used in relation to studies of human subjects: life studies. In this case, it's pigs rather than people, but the principle's the same.
Among Leonardo's drawings we find, on the one hand, "Study for the Sforza Monument" and "Study for the Head of Leda", for example, both examples of preparatory studies, and on the other, "Study of Arms and Hands", "Study of Horse and Rider", "Studies of the Shoulder and Neck", "Studies of Water passing Obstacles and falling", etc., which are visual exercises, designed to get the hang of how to depict things. I think these pig drawings are like that.
http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/
| Charles Davis
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