comme si l'art dépassait

English translation: as if art transcended

23:27 Jun 23, 2017

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French term or phrase: comme si l'art dépassait

Bonsoir, d'après vous est-ce que je pourrais traduire cette phrase:

Comment un homme qui a été lui meme touché personellement par la guerre, qui est témoin d’une epoque qui se dissout, d’un bouleversement terrible, peut continuer à peindre quelque chose d’aussi calme, d’aussi serein? C’est vraiment quelque chose qui nous interpelle encore aujourd’hui, comme si l’art finalement dépassait toutes les contingences de la destruction humaine.

comme ça?

How a man who has been personally hit by the war, who’s witness to an era that is collapsing, to a terrible upheaval, how can he keeps on painting something that is so calm, so serene? It’s something which concerns us even today, as if art went beyond all the contingencies of human destruction.

Grifone
Italy

English translation:as if art transcended

Explanation:
Agree with your translation except for these suggestions -

hit should be touched, stricken - these convey the profundity of the experience better than hit

keeps s/b keep

went beyond s/b transcended because went beyond conveys only space/distance and not triumph over, while the original depasser is more about triumph

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mrrafe
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as if art transcended

mrrafe

as if art finally found a place beyond every contingency that emerges from human destruction

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comme si l\'art dépassait as if art finally found a place beyond every contingency that emerges from human destruction

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comme si l\'art dépassait

as if art transcended

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