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AP 10 – Tamara de Lempicka
In ‘The Rollercoaster life of an iconic Art Deco painter known as “The Baroness with a brush” ‘ Emma Taggart describes the main milestones of life and artistic career of the Polish painter Tamara the Lempicka.
After having traveled around Europe in her youth, visiting Poland, Switzerland and Italy, Tamara moves to Paris with her husband. Her new home gives her the possibility to get in touch with the greatest artists of the period, such as the avant-guarde painters, like Picasso, and the Impressionists, that she doesn’t appreciate due to a different vision about painting. In fact, her idea is not to strictly represent the reality but to highlight subjects finesse in her own way.
During 20s she becomes famous and appreciated all around the Europe, making exhibitions and cooperating with magazines. The success brings also an unruly social life that leads her husband to divorce.
In 30s she re-marries and moves to United States immediately before the strike of War World II. The end of the war creates a change in art taste and her Art Deco style is not appreciated anymore, so she tries to re-invent herself as an artist realizing Abstract Expressionist works. This modification in her style doesn’t give her back her popularity.
Only in later times, around 1972, her work is re-evaluated and now it is a niche artist, appreciated especially by famous actors and singers like Madonna and Jack Nicholson.
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Top marks on this @Lu_Corde well done:
✅ you used your own words
✅ you identified the main idea
✅ you found relevant ideas & omitted irrelevant details
✅ you kept the meaning the same
✅ you used attributive tags
✅ you kept your opinion out of it
Let’s have a look at some corrections:
> missing article: Emma Taggart describes the main milestones of THE life and artistic career of the Polish painter Tamara the Lempicka.
> During THE 20s and In THE 30s
> … and moves to THE United States
> word order: The success brings also…. > sounds better like this: The success also brings ….
Grammatically, also can be put in lots of different places in a sentence, but changing its place will also change the meaning and emphasis of the sentence. It’s difficult to learn this as it’s a very subtle difference, but a good way to try is to basically put also next to or as close as possible to the word that you are highlighting.
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I’m back and I see my old enemies, articles, are still here. I definitely have to pay more attention to them.
Thank you for the tip about ‘also’, I’ll write it down and try to apply it!
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Your articles are my pronomi diretti e indiretti 😂
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