May 24, 2022 10:01
1 yr ago
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French term
Sue Bennett
piqûres (peinture surréaliste)
French to English
Art/Literary
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Bonjour à tous !
J'ai besoin d'aide pour traduire "piqûres" dans cette phrase :
"La série 'Morphologies psychologiques' est un mélange inédit d’art abstrait et figuratif, d’aplats et de piqûres, par l’alternance de peinture au chiffon et au pinceau."
Il s'agit d'une série de tableaux peints par Roberto Matta.
Merci infiniment pour votre aide...
J'ai besoin d'aide pour traduire "piqûres" dans cette phrase :
"La série 'Morphologies psychologiques' est un mélange inédit d’art abstrait et figuratif, d’aplats et de piqûres, par l’alternance de peinture au chiffon et au pinceau."
Il s'agit d'une série de tableaux peints par Roberto Matta.
Merci infiniment pour votre aide...
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +1 | spots |
Mpoma
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| 4 | Peaks |
Lara Barnett
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| 3 | splatters/drops |
Barbara Cochran, MFA
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| 3 | blobs |
Rachel Fell
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| 3 | flat areas and signs (surrealist painting) |
Anastasia Kalantzi
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| 2 | glazing |
SafeTex
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| 1 | points |
Bourth
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Proposed translations
+1
1 hr
Selected
spots
In a painting context you'd need some specific justification for another choice.
Just glimpsed at some of these painting in this particular series by Matta. Saw some spots.
But the fact that the piqûres are said to correspond to what he does with the brush, but the aplats what he does with the rags makes it pretty much an open-and-shut case.
Just glimpsed at some of these painting in this particular series by Matta. Saw some spots.
But the fact that the piqûres are said to correspond to what he does with the brush, but the aplats what he does with the rags makes it pretty much an open-and-shut case.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
19 mins
points
Wondering if 'aplats et piqûres' might correspond to 'volumes and points' as expressed below:
"Broadly speaking, rather than pursuing the moral and psychological implications of Dalí’s division of forms into hard and soft, Matta tried to convey a maximum conflation of forms, an idea expressed in the characteristic linguistic mergings and neologisms of his writing: “the object, at each risk of interpenetration may oscillate from POINTVOLUME to momenteternity, from attractionrepulsion to pastfuture, from lightshadow to mattermovement” (Matta, “Morphologie psychologieque,” cited in Paris 1985, p. 30). Not only figures and objects, but also space and time are convulsed and pulsate in this new “graphique des transformations” (graphic art of transformations; ibid.)."
"Broadly speaking, rather than pursuing the moral and psychological implications of Dalí’s division of forms into hard and soft, Matta tried to convey a maximum conflation of forms, an idea expressed in the characteristic linguistic mergings and neologisms of his writing: “the object, at each risk of interpenetration may oscillate from POINTVOLUME to momenteternity, from attractionrepulsion to pastfuture, from lightshadow to mattermovement” (Matta, “Morphologie psychologieque,” cited in Paris 1985, p. 30). Not only figures and objects, but also space and time are convulsed and pulsate in this new “graphique des transformations” (graphic art of transformations; ibid.)."
Peer comment(s):
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Mpoma
: Tenuous!
46 mins
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Spots don't have relief, points do (and can be formed with a brush, as opposed to with a rag).
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4 hrs
Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
United States
Native in English
United States
Laudable Lady Linguist
Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 3 more.
splatters/drops
Individualized splatters, or individual, random drops of paint on a canvas.
4 hrs
Lara Barnett
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
Specializes in field
United Kingdom
www.lingocraft.co.uk
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish, Irish, Singaporean, UK, South African) 
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
Related KudoZ points
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8
Peaks
As per my discussion entry this morning, could this relate to the HIGHS AND LOWS, or PEAKS AND TROUGHS of graphs?, as described by Matta in his explanation of 'Morphologies psychologiques' ...i.e..
"a psychological morphology would be a graph of ideas"
.. found in "read more" extension on the link below:
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Note added at 4 hrs (2022-05-24 14:44:35 GMT)
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Example in sentence of Read More:
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/roberto-matta-morphologie-psyc...
"a psychological morphology would be a graph of ideas"
.. found in "read more" extension on the link below:
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Note added at 4 hrs (2022-05-24 14:44:35 GMT)
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Example in sentence of Read More:
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/roberto-matta-morphologie-psyc...
Example sentence:
In the domain of the conscience, a psychological morphology would be a graph of ideas" which should be conceived of "before optical images provide form for ideas....
Peer comment(s):
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philgoddard
: But piqûre doesn't mean peak.
10 hrs
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No it doesn't but I translate contextually, not just literally, when required.// My suggestion comes from the highs and lows idea.
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5 hrs
Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
Works in field
United Kingdom
Thorough, knowledgeable and resourceful
Native in: English (Variant: UK)
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, Italian to English, and 4 more.
Related KudoZ points
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20
blobs
Surrealist painter and friend Gordon Oslow-Ford, with whom Matta started to create his first paintings in 1938 explained that Matta placed blobs of bright coloured paint alongside one another across the blade of a palette knife to create an automatic gesture on the canvas.
https://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/roberto-matta-on-the-edge...
he improvisational process of scribbling and curlicued lines reference Roberto Matta’s scribbles and accidental blobs which he incorporated into denser spatial patterns and ambiguous forms.
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/24479
https://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/roberto-matta-on-the-edge...
he improvisational process of scribbling and curlicued lines reference Roberto Matta’s scribbles and accidental blobs which he incorporated into denser spatial patterns and ambiguous forms.
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/24479
3 hrs
Anastasia Kalantzi
Greece
Greece
Greece
EnFrGreek Medical/Mechanical/Legal
Native in: Greek (Variant: Modern) , Greek (Ancient) (Variants: Koine (common), Doric, Homeric, Ionic, Aeolic)
Works in: French to Greek, Greek to French, English to Greek, and 5 more.
Related KudoZ points
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3
French term (edited):
aplats et piqûres (peinture surréaliste)
flat areas and signs (surrealist painting)
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/roberto-matta-morphologie-psyc...
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Note added at 5 ώρες (2022-05-24 15:51:48 GMT)
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https://www.artsy.net/artist/roberto-matta
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Note added at 5 ώρες (2022-05-24 15:51:48 GMT)
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https://www.artsy.net/artist/roberto-matta
Peer comment(s):
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Lara Barnett
: As per my link in the discussion box this morning.// Well your English seemed good enough to find the artsy.net link that I posted this morning, so it is strange that you do not understand me now.
42 mins
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Sorry, dear, it's not due to my C2 level English understanding, of course not but only due to working fatigue. Sorry for having used your link but frankly speaking I hadn't noticed it in the first place! Sorry for not being able to delete it now.
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philgoddard
: Piqûre doesn't mean sign.
10 hrs
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Yes, not exactly, I wouldn't like "stitching" though, but we're talking about surrealist art here, and once you'd take a close look at Matta's work you'd see or feel a mountain of universe-like signs...I've done two expressionism exhibitions myself too.
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13 hrs
glazing
Hello
After looking at numerous paintings and articles, I think "piqûre" is actually piqûre de lumière achieved by the glazing technique
I can't find too much evidence for this but some of his paintings were of glazed objects like a bowl.
The second reference speaks of Matta and his technique of "subtractive glazing" (phrase coined by the writer)
But I know nothing of painting hence the low confidence level
After looking at numerous paintings and articles, I think "piqûre" is actually piqûre de lumière achieved by the glazing technique
I can't find too much evidence for this but some of his paintings were of glazed objects like a bowl.
The second reference speaks of Matta and his technique of "subtractive glazing" (phrase coined by the writer)
But I know nothing of painting hence the low confidence level
Reference:
https://finearttutorials.com/guide/the-glazing-technique-for-oil-painting/
https://www.christinerasmussenart.com/blog/2013/06/06/featured-artist-roberto-matta
Discussion
"In the domain of the conscience, a psychological morphology would be a graph of ideas" which should be conceived of "before optical images provide form for ideas...." etc
found in "read more" at: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/roberto-matta-morphologie-psyc...
'Morphologies psychologiques'