états

anglais translation: states

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Terme ou expression en français :états
Traduction en anglais :states
Entrée par  : MoiraB

11:16 Jun 20, 2016
traduction français vers anglais [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, artisanat et peinture / description of Pissarro\'s technique
Terme ou expression en français : états
Context is prints (engravings, etchings, etc.) and printmaking through the ages.

Camille Pissarro est l’artiste impressionniste le plus attaché à l’estampe. Ces oeuvres montrent une recherche constante de la lumière. Son apparente facilité d’expression cache un exigeant travail de dessin et de tirage que les nombreux **états** confirment.

I get the feeling this is something like "draft versions". I did find the word "state" used on the Tate Modern site ("sixth and final state" of some work or other) but this text is intended for a broad general public.
MoiraB
France
Local time: 22:14
state
Explication :
This is the correct technical term. If you think your readers won't understand it, you could add a word or two of explanation in brackets, such as "forms" or "versions".

"In printmaking, a state is a different form of a print, caused by a deliberate and permanent change to a matrix such as a copper plate (for engravings etc.) or woodblock (for woodcut)."
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philgoddard
États-Unis
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It's clear from checking out glossaries of printmaking terms that artist's proof, trial proof and state and different things, so "state" it is plus a brief explanation. Thanks, everyone.
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Résumé des réponses proposées
4 +6state
philgoddard
5trial proofs
B D Finch
4prototypes; unfinished articles
Andrew Bramhall
3 +1stages
Lisa Jane
3artist's prooves
Raoul COLIN (X)


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prototypes; unfinished articles


Explication :
Yes, ' draft versions' in need of further development or refining/ retouching.

Andrew Bramhall
Royaume-Uni
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stages


Explication :
could it mean the various phases, stages of the painting as his technique was often to layer the oil colour in several stages (see example of different stages here in one artist's interpretation of his technique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7-tIW7w5GU:

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http://www.moma.org/explore/conservation/cezannepissarro/set...
Setting the scene

Cézanne and Pissarro clearly render similar scenes, or even the same scene, with quite different senses of essential harmony. There also are times when they very clearly diverge in their handling of paint. In their use of underdrawing, one of the earliest stages of a painting, another fundamental difference can be observed. While this exhibition does not include any examples of Pissaro’s use of underdrawing, in 1881 we see Cézanne employing it a great deal. The extensive use of underdrawing in these particular paintings indicates that Cézanne is thinking about how best to start a painting; how all-embracing his notes need to be, as it were.

Detecting underdrawing can be done in several different ways. Sometimes it can be seen directly underneath thin washes of color. Other times, in more thickly painted works, it can be seen peeking out from under skips in the upper layers of paint. Finally it can sometimes be seen with an infrared sensitive camera. Infrared cameras take advantage of the fact that many paints are comparatively transparent or reflective of the infrared part of the spectrum. This is in contrast to typical drawing materials that absorb these same wavelengths. An infrared image will then show the underdrawing as dark lines beneath the painted layer.

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stages can refer to any artwork

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after having looked into his techniques it seems that STATE is the word used to say what is in effect a STAGE of the process see example here

https://books.google.it/books?id=NZt2oj5S-wQC&pg=PA243&lpg=P...

So you could use stage if you prefer it to state (as, I have just seen, another colleague has suggested in the discussion)

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if you read the text in the link provided (here referring to the etchings of Cassatt) it says clearly at the foot of page 239 "Preliminary states (stages in the development of the print) were enjoyed and cherished."

Lisa Jane
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Notes au répondeur
Demandeur : this is about his prints - not oil paintings


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Neutre  Andrew Bramhall: Wouldn't the writer have said ' étapes' if this was what's meant?
4 minutes
  -> he could have-they are similar concepts

Neutre  philgoddard: It's not about painting.
1 heure
  -> yes I now know that and if you had read my whole answer you would have seen my later comments

Accord  David Vaughn: "Preliminary states (stages in the development of the print)"
8 heures
  -> Thanks David
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état
state


Explication :
This is the correct technical term. If you think your readers won't understand it, you could add a word or two of explanation in brackets, such as "forms" or "versions".

"In printmaking, a state is a different form of a print, caused by a deliberate and permanent change to a matrix such as a copper plate (for engravings etc.) or woodblock (for woodcut)."



    Référence : http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(printmaking)
philgoddard
États-Unis
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Langue maternelle : anglais
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Grading comment
It's clear from checking out glossaries of printmaking terms that artist's proof, trial proof and state and different things, so "state" it is plus a brief explanation. Thanks, everyone.
Notes au répondeur
Demandeur : yes, I'd just come to the same conclusion myself!


Commentaires des pairs sur cette réponse (et réponses des répondeurs)
Accord  James A. Walsh
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Accord  Debora Blake
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Accord  Yvonne Gallagher
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Accord  Helen Shiner
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Accord  Laurette Tassin
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Accord  Jean-Claude Gouin
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artist's prooves


Explication :
this is about etching
This wikipedia is about this step in producing an etching wiht the artist checking how his/her works will appear

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thanks for the correction.
The article is in English

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Am arrtist realised a drawing and gives it to the etcher to be turned into an engraving. As well knows, this process is no photography.
So the etcher presents his firs realisation or artist's proof to the artist who might not agree with what he sees. Then following the artist's comments the etcher goes back to workd with acid and his set of chisels and puches to modify the copper plate.Then he présents a new proof to the artist. And so back and forth and that could last quite a while. Rembrandt and as I learnt it recenetly Turner were quite exacting and with them that lasted for month on end.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_proof
Raoul COLIN (X)
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Commentaires des pairs sur cette réponse (et réponses des répondeurs)
Neutre  Andrew Bramhall: ' prooves' isn't the plural of ' proof'; it's 'proofs'. ' Prooves' doesn't exist!
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trial proofs


Explication :
http://www.progressiveart.com/art_terms.shtml
"Trial Proof - Pre-cursor to a limited edition series, these initial prints are pulled so that the artist may examine, refine and perfect the prints to the desired final state. Trial proofs are generally not signed."

B D Finch
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