Discussion room: art

[Sabrina]

thank you for the corrections !!

Have a good day… Here a cloudy and windy day…

[sonia]

Q1: Do you like art? If yes, what kind of art do you like? How often do you go to art museums? If no, do you know why you don’t like it?

I do love art! Specially that one of the XIX th / beginning of XX th century: the Illumists, Expressionists, Avangards. I often enjoy going to art museums when I visit a new country or city (less in my town, I don’t know why) and I’m curious about artists’ life, I always thought that behind a set of masterpieces (not only paintings) a very interesting and turbulent life hides…

Q3: Who is your favourite artist? Why do you like them so much?

If we talk about painters, Marc Chagall is absolutely my favourite one! He has this magic capacity to get elements from the daily life and raise them to the dimension of the dream; the story telling is there on the paint and in the meantime you feel something moving inside. I love his colours too and this Russian atmosphere that transpires.

Q4: Do you think that art is important to society? Why?

Art is extremely important to society! Not only as an evidence of the historical period when the artist lived, but as a way to see it from a different perspective… Furthermore, art is a powerful and in the meantime delicate way to communicate realities, intimate realities, that, without art, wouldn’t easily reach our hearts and give us the chance to evolve. That’s my opinion!

[Kerin]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts @sonim – I like that era and Chagall too, (but I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen one of his paintings🤔). It’s curious, I am a bit the same – I love visiting museums and galleries when I travel, but I don’t tend to do it in my own town (I have only been to the Uffizi once 😱…although I have been to the Triennale Milano quite a few times!)

I think we are all agreed about the importance of art in our society! How terribly dull life would be without it!

NOTES:

> Specially that one of the XIX th / beginning of XX th century – I would replace ‘that one of’ simply with ‘from’: Specially from the XIXth …To use ‘that one’ isn’t correct because you are talking about a collection of something rather than something individual or unique.

> I always thought that behind a set of masterpieces (not only paintings) a very interesting and turbulent life hides…This sentence is so poetic and rich, I am reluctant to correct it! Because it isn’t wrong, and as I say it is rather lovely. However, a native speaker would say:

I always thought that a very interesting and turbulent life lies behind a set of masterpieces (not only paintings) … (https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/lie-behind)

> lastly, evidence is uncountable so we don’t need an article with it: Not only as evidence of the

[sonia]

Hi Kerin!

Thanks for your notes! Nice to share our thoughts!

Here one of my favourite painting from Chagall:

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[Lucia]

Although I am not an artistic person, I love art. I really enjoy to spend a couple of hours in a museum, particularly if it is early in the morning and the exhibitions aren’t crowded. I’m particularly passionate about Modern art, so period between 1700-1800, and the way the artists clashed with the spread photography and began to represent also poor people. I will focus on picture in the following because is the art that I better know.

I appreciate Impressionism, but my absolute favourite painters are Courbet and Munch. Courbet is the most famous Realist painter and it is the first one who started to represent the plebs, for example in his ‘The Stonebreaker’, and for this reason he was excluded by the canon exhibitions and created his personal one. Moreover, he was an eccentric character that I find fascinating, let think about his own self-portrait he named ‘The fool’.

Munch, on the other hand, was a more conceptual painter and I love his simple figures and powerful concepts, let think about his ‘Scream’, seen as an environmental critic.

About the modern art paintings I don’t like them very much, mostly because I don’t understand them. The last years paintings are conceptual ones and, for this reason, I find that it is difficult that people who haven’t studied specifically art or art’s history are able to appreciate them.

[Kerin]

Lovely, thanks for sharing @Lu_Corde – (I love early mornings in a museum too!)

Have a look here: can you try and fix them?

1. I really enjoy to spend a couple of hours in a museum … (wrong form)

2. …. so period between 1700-1800 (missing word)

3. I will focus on picture(❗️) in the following because ❗️is the art that I better know❗️.

> Here do you mean : last year’s paintings (without ‘the’ and add saxon genitive) or the latest paintings …?

> for this reason, I find that it is difficult that... watch this one, it’s a direct translation from Italian. We would say …. for this reason, I find that it is UNLIKELY that

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[Lucia]

Let’s try to fix them:

1. the correct structure is ‘enjoy + -ing’ so ‘I really enjoy SPENDING …’

2. THE period…

3. I will focus on PAINTING in the following, because IT is the art I (know better ?)

I meant ‘the latest paintings’.

Ups, I used an Italian English.

Thank you for your feedback!

[Kerin]

Good stuff @Lu_Corde

(You can say ‘I know best’. Usually we use ‘I know better’ to mean ‘I should have known better’ see: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/know-better-than-sb?q=know+better)

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