Vienna 1900 sounds like a visual feast! I hope a NYC museum picks it up and shows it for a couple of months - I'd love to see it!
This post reminds me that I really must go see the Odilon Redon exhibit happening at the Museum of Modern Art here in NYC. He was a contemporary of Klimt and Schiele, and one of my favorite painters of that era.
...it was nice to do a bit of "lèche-vitrines" (literally "lick the shop windows", do you have something approaching in English ?)
Here we press our noses to the window glass. :)
...*caution, bad translation coming* "I love to be directed, manipulated. I chose my camp, as in literature. The one for the heroines who are a bit dark, lonely, who failed everything, who lost love."
Not a bad translation at all, only a literal one. Mme. Ardant is clearly discussing acting, so I (as a native (American)/English speaker with a small previous knowledge of French) would see the paragraph as
( ... )
I didn't watch the whole site but the Redon's exhibit seems very interesting too ! I've always had a predilection for that kind of artists with feverish imagination, my favourite being Bosch (I have a poster of the Jardin des Délices in my bedroom).
Thanks for correcting the translation ;) I stuck to literal because I didn't know better it was late and I was tired her sentences are full of innuendo (innuendos ?), particularly in the "directed, manipulated" bit, there's a lot more to it than acting. Choisir son camp also implies the notion of being ready to fight for your choice, which is why I didn't use place finally, as I did at first. And littérature here is definitely referring to books (I think of 19th century novels' heroines). I'm so glad I didn't went on with my translation studies !! It's an impossible task
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Qui est la Bacchante???q_spadeDecember 13 2005, 04:58:30 UTC
we call it Window Shopping here
It's called that here too, but the extreme aspect of that...the nose hits the glass before the tongue. ;)
crazy4ew, I try to avoid using my "real name" online. Here on siriala's LJ it's "OK", but I've had some negative online experiences in the past and would hate for those venomous people to Google me up. Just for future reference, my friend. :D
I would love to visit siriala with you! I studied French in school as a child - yet it was never really spoken to me so I "get" it but I don't "KNOW" it. I'm sure I would make scandalous mistakes in terms of grammar & syntax and you both would be rolling in the street laughing at my mishandling of the French language. :D
Re: Qui est la Bacchante???crazy4ewDecember 15 2005, 03:30:57 UTC
toutes mes excuses ma cherie, it never entered my little mind... i've deleted and reposted with correction just to be safe... never know who drops by i guess... so sorry about that... didn't realize!
scandalous!!! nonsense, i behave badly enough for the both of us... mere words, ma chere, mere words!!! Take Moliere for example...
Comtesse, d'amour me font mourir vos beaux yeux! Comtesse, vos beaux yeux d'amour me font mourir! Comtesse, vos beaux yeux me font mourir d'amour!
Re: Qui est la Bacchante???sirialaDecember 15 2005, 16:02:23 UTC
Stop !!! Molière est en train de se retourner dans sa tombe ;D (et dans mon souvenir c'était "belle marquise, vos beaux yeux..." mais tu as sans doute raison, je ne l'ai pas lu depuis quelques siècles)
Et quand tu auras deux secondes, va lire ce que je viens d'écrire sur cette même page à q_spade à propos des différences entre français de France et français du Canada, avec un exemple dû à votre grande Céline ;)
ahem.... when q_spade and I visit, we must go back to the Grand Palais and walk the Chamnps Elysees... i love to visit art exhibits and such... what a magical day... *wishful thinking, it's okay to dream* :D
as for your wall, am in total agreement with q_spade here... it's gorgeous, and so is Fanny Ardant, wish i looked like her!!! She has such class!!!!
c'etait hier, mercredi... et ne me demande point si j'ai reussi... car je n'ai aucune idee... mais, j'ai trop de chats a fouetter pour m'en inquieter!!!! tant pis! j'aurai la note que j'aurai... j'espere que vous fouetter aussi les chats en France???!?!?!?! :D
Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's beautiful... I love to learn about languages (even mine !)
Oh yes, Klimt is totally incredible. And I was watching again and again pics of that anime I was talking about, they have a way with clothes that just catches my eyes everytime. I wish I knew how to use that for a wall. Maybe when I'm more at ease with photoshop I'll figure out how to create something like that.
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Vienna 1900 sounds like a visual feast! I hope a NYC museum picks it up and shows it for a couple of months - I'd love to see it!
This post reminds me that I really must go see the Odilon Redon exhibit happening at the Museum of Modern Art here in NYC. He was a contemporary of Klimt and Schiele, and one of my favorite painters of that era.
...it was nice to do a bit of "lèche-vitrines" (literally "lick the shop windows", do you have something approaching in English ?)
Here we press our noses to the window glass. :)
...*caution, bad translation coming* "I love to be directed, manipulated. I chose my camp, as in literature. The one for the heroines who are a bit dark, lonely, who failed everything, who lost love."
Not a bad translation at all, only a literal one. Mme. Ardant is clearly discussing acting, so I (as a native (American)/English speaker with a small previous knowledge of French) would see the paragraph as ( ... )
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Thanks for correcting the translation ;) I stuck to literal because I didn't know better it was late and I was tired her sentences are full of innuendo (innuendos ?), particularly in the "directed, manipulated" bit, there's a lot more to it than acting. Choisir son camp also implies the notion of being ready to fight for your choice, which is why I didn't use place finally, as I did at first. And littérature here is definitely referring to books (I think of 19th century novels' heroines). I'm so glad I didn't went on with my translation studies !! It's an impossible task ( ... )
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It's called that here too, but the extreme aspect of that...the nose hits the glass before the tongue. ;)
crazy4ew, I try to avoid using my "real name" online. Here on siriala's LJ it's "OK", but I've had some negative online experiences in the past and would hate for those venomous people to Google me up. Just for future reference, my friend. :D
I would love to visit siriala with you! I studied French in school as a child - yet it was never really spoken to me so I "get" it but I don't "KNOW" it. I'm sure I would make scandalous mistakes in terms of grammar & syntax and you both would be rolling in the street laughing at my mishandling of the French language. :D
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scandalous!!! nonsense, i behave badly enough for the both of us... mere words, ma chere, mere words!!! Take Moliere for example...
Comtesse, d'amour me font mourir vos beaux yeux!
Comtesse, vos beaux yeux d'amour me font mourir!
Comtesse, vos beaux yeux me font mourir d'amour!
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Et quand tu auras deux secondes, va lire ce que je viens d'écrire sur cette même page à q_spade à propos des différences entre français de France et français du Canada, avec un exemple dû à votre grande Céline ;)
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ahem.... when q_spade and I visit, we must go back to the Grand Palais and walk the Chamnps Elysees... i love to visit art exhibits and such... what a magical day... *wishful thinking, it's okay to dream* :D
as for your wall, am in total agreement with q_spade here... it's gorgeous, and so is Fanny Ardant, wish i looked like her!!! She has such class!!!!
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Yes, Fanny Ardant has a lot of class, it's unfair to other women ! ;)
Et au fait, c'est quand ton examen déjà ?
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Oh yes, Klimt is totally incredible. And I was watching again and again pics of that anime I was talking about, they have a way with clothes that just catches my eyes everytime. I wish I knew how to use that for a wall. Maybe when I'm more at ease with photoshop I'll figure out how to create something like that.
Beautiful icon ;)
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