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Nothing set in stone, maggyn, , to the words we choose and prefer to use, I should imaging, it is the way some people expel them could get irritating, pompous like.
The only time I have ever used the term en plein air, was at the end of a short story, and it was a little risqué.
Lew, that's a brilliant picture, as always.
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That does seem a bit 'over the top' Wanderer69, however if a chosen plant has a specific meaning to a given feeling, of the artist, then it would make more sense.
In that instance it would be worth doing a search for that particular plant if no explanation was given. Maybe lilac was chosen because the artist just liked lilacs. Who knows.
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Yes Micheal, 'Less is more' is one of those overused oddities that's nudging towards being pretentious, I much prefer 'simplicity', which I admire in art and consider very difficult to do. (There's one area where this phrase doesn't apply just now, and that's dosh.)
So far in this thread, there's only TWO sayings I really dislike, the rest I accept or ignore. 'My five year-old..blah..blah..' is one, sometimes it's not said with malice, but it can be irritating, largely because it can 'close down' a conversation, rather than open it up. (A bit like somebody who only says...yes...no...maybe...the death of conversation). The second one is not a saying... it's ART BABBLE, like Jim's example of a flower painting. Once that starts we're in LA LA land.
Lew.
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Yes Margaret, two there we hear all the time. The 'I would have done it differently' is really irritating...who cares, and why didn't you? Another two I dislike (though not art related) are...'In your own words, tell us.....' And the masses of people who start every answer with 'Basically....' you hear that all the time in tv interviews. Nothing desperate there, but I give an inward groan every-time I hear them.
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"Less is more", and "don't fiddle", both irritate me - because at best they're only partly true/applicable. I know what is meant - that, especially in watercolour, the last thing you need to do is labour and struggle over a painting when you've failed to say what you intended to, in the hope that one little detail - well maybe two - or OK, three - is going to transform it; or at least hide the fact that it hasn't quite come off.
That I can understand. But you do need to finish your paintings - well, I need to finish mine. If for example you work in layers, in acrylic especially, it's no good saying less is more and packing the whole thing in before you've developed the picture, because acrylic (at least, heavy-duty, opaque acrylic) just doesn't work like that. This is the trouble with universal rules trying to cover all media - they don't work in practice for all of them.
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Sorry Alan but I'm not in complete agreement with you. English has the richest vocabulary in the world and it seems such a shame when it is undermined and demeaned by lazy talk. It may be every day speech for many but it's not for me.
I do agree with the term 'My students' - yes very pompous..
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For a brief moment I did wonder if the proper meaning of 'Leisure Painter" is a painter of leisure in the sense of some-one who paints 'leisure' as opposed to landscapes, or portraits, or flowerpots Thankfully I was rescued by the phrase 'man of leisure' which is not taken to imply a man made of 'leisure.'
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Sunday's offering
Big Skies
Usually said of places like East Anglia. Well actually they’re the same ‘size’ as everywhere else - what we mean is that because there is a low flat horizon they're uninterrupted skies. There's a place out in the countryside not far from my village in middle England where the skies are uninterrupted - everyone should look out for an uninterrupted sky near them.
Okay I know few will agree with me and I'll be called a knit picker but I get a sense of pleasure being a knit picker. I hate snags in any form.
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Yes Micheal, the sky's the same wherever you are, but I must admit there are many times when the sky seems bigger. In the desert, at sea...OK no mountains or skyscrapers to get in the way. But the sky undeniably does seem bigger often ('seem' is the weak link in that line of thought, I know.) Whatever the logic, 'big sky' is just fine by me.