Feb 14, 2007 14:44
17 yrs ago
1 viewer *
French term
à bout de souffle
French to English
Art/Literary
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
PABLO AVENDAÑO
Approche toute personelle sans redite, d'une peinture qu'on dit souvent à bout de souffle. Découverte de son espace de travail, présentation des peintures et photographies, méditations sur l’art.
Short description of this exhibition - this is the only text about this particular artist.
Short description of this exhibition - this is the only text about this particular artist.
Proposed translations
(English)
Proposed translations
+7
21 mins
Selected
a dying art
My interpretation is different. Painting is said to be "running out of breath", "running out of steam", "on its last legs"... perhaps because artists today produce more installations, video works...
Peer comment(s):
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Dylan Edwards
: Yes, I was hesitating between "breathless" and the "end of its breath" (last gasp?) meaning. Your interpretation makes sense here.
8 mins
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cjohnstone
: yes mine is different too, see my answer
10 mins
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Emma Paulay
: Yes, my initial thought was "running out of steam" but I think we're talking of this artist's methods and not painting in general.
30 mins
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CMJ_Trans (X)
: on its last legs - all other interpretations are WRONG
31 mins
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Miranda Joubioux (X)
1 hr
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jonno
1 hr
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Julie Barber
: it's d'une peinture - I agree with dying art but not that they are referring to painting in general but to this particular style
1 hr
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you - you all helped and this was a good interpretation of the phrase."
+4
34 mins
cjohnstone
France
France
Native in French
&
English
Works in field
France
Experience and feel
Native in: French 
, English (Variant: British)
Works in: English to French, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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8
supposedly on the wane, outdated
ideas but sure nothing to do with breath whatever... means supposedly, allegedly, out of nspiration, declining, short of new inspiration or revival
Peer comment(s):
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CMJ_Trans (X)
: also in the correct ballpark
18 mins
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thks
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Miranda Joubioux (X)
: a declining art form
50 mins
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thks and agree with your suggestion
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jonno
1 hr
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merci, je crois c dit CMJ que c'est sinon la bonne formule du moins le correct ballpark!!!
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jean-jacques alexandre
: O.K. with CJM
18 hrs
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thks
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1 hr
the phrase come from...
... a certain Jo Dustin, a Belgian artist.
http://www.librecours.be/Avendano/avendano dustin-dec 2006 E...
via http://www.pabloavendano.com/home.htm
who is described here:
http://www.performarts.net/ejournal/dustin.html
Nothing to give the game away... Dustin seems to be suggesting Avendano breathes new life into what people consider an old form.
I'm going to tick one of the above boxes or both.
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-02-14 16:27:44 GMT)
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Yeah the phrase seems to have been plucked out of context, hence the ambiguity.
http://www.librecours.be/Avendano/avendano dustin-dec 2006 E...
via http://www.pabloavendano.com/home.htm
who is described here:
http://www.performarts.net/ejournal/dustin.html
Nothing to give the game away... Dustin seems to be suggesting Avendano breathes new life into what people consider an old form.
I'm going to tick one of the above boxes or both.
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-02-14 16:27:44 GMT)
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Yeah the phrase seems to have been plucked out of context, hence the ambiguity.
4 mins
breathless
Painting often described as breathless (off the top of my head) -there must be a more artistic and high-blown way of putting it.
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-02-14 16:44:02 GMT)
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Disagree with my own answer, having read the sentence more carefully.
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-02-14 16:44:02 GMT)
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Disagree with my own answer, having read the sentence more carefully.
Peer comment(s):
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French Foodie
: if you look at his paintings, they appear almost blurred, as though he was rushed, out of breath, breathless, see link posted above//I guess the Eng trans of the famous Godard film was way off the mark then ;-)
34 mins
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CMJ_Trans (X)
: wrong interpretation -sorry - breathless would be "essoufflé" and even that would be "running out of steam"
50 mins
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2 hrs
needing reinvigoration
Looking at the man's pictures, the only connection I can see with "souffle" is that they appear to have been seen through a pair of misted-up glasses or a window someone has been "huffing" on.
A don't think that is the image, however, and I'd say his artwork is certainly not on its last legs.
I think what they are suggesting is that the art world generally has run out of ideas, is indeed dying (in terms of inventiveness and imagination) but that this guy has a new, invigorating approach that is going to breathe new life back into the pictorial artform as others pick up on what he is doing.
Rather than insisting on the death throes of pictorial art, it might be better to stress the prospect of new vigour that can be breathed into it.
A don't think that is the image, however, and I'd say his artwork is certainly not on its last legs.
I think what they are suggesting is that the art world generally has run out of ideas, is indeed dying (in terms of inventiveness and imagination) but that this guy has a new, invigorating approach that is going to breathe new life back into the pictorial artform as others pick up on what he is doing.
Rather than insisting on the death throes of pictorial art, it might be better to stress the prospect of new vigour that can be breathed into it.
13 hrs
Raymonde Gagnier
Canada
Canada
Native in French
&
English
Specializes in field
Canada
Also a narrator/je suis aussi narratrice
Native in: French (Variant: Canadian) , English
Works in: English to French
Related KudoZ points
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4
out of ideas/inspiration
"Souffle" also means imagination, inspiration, creativity....In this context, it means that painting, as an art form, is often thought to be repetitive, to lack new ideas, new styles...
Discussion
http://www.pabloavendano.com/GALLERY_TOPOGRAPHISMES/gallery2...
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