Formvokabular

English translation: formal vocabulary

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German term or phrase:Formvokabular
English translation:formal vocabulary
Entered by: Courtney Sliwinski

14:00 Jun 26, 2007
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Printing & Publishing / Printing in Art
German term or phrase: Formvokabular
In dieser Entschiedenheit entwickelte sie ein bildreiches Formvokabular mit surrealen Zügen, wie beispielsweise in ihrer grafischen Serie über “Träume” und des “Odysseus”.

Is anyone familiar with this term, and can offer some good suggestions?
Courtney Sliwinski
Local time: 04:24
formal vocabulary
Explanation:
seems to be common in connection with painting and architecture

"Peebles has created a spartan formal vocabulary derived directly from the Stijl artists but ultimately ..."

"Chagall integrated personal fantasy and narrative elements from Russian folk art into an advanced formal vocabulary indebted to the French artists, as is evident in his The Soldier Drinks (1911–12). "

http://www.guggenheimlasvegas.org/past/exhibition_168_page_6...

from the Tate Galler: "a reduced formal vocabulary of simple, often geometric compositions executed in a characteristically detached manner."
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lisa23
Germany
Local time: 04:24
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Works wonderfully in my text! thanks!
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formal vocabulary


Explanation:
seems to be common in connection with painting and architecture

"Peebles has created a spartan formal vocabulary derived directly from the Stijl artists but ultimately ..."

"Chagall integrated personal fantasy and narrative elements from Russian folk art into an advanced formal vocabulary indebted to the French artists, as is evident in his The Soldier Drinks (1911–12). "

http://www.guggenheimlasvegas.org/past/exhibition_168_page_6...

from the Tate Galler: "a reduced formal vocabulary of simple, often geometric compositions executed in a characteristically detached manner."



    Reference: http://www.pontavensa.org/2006.html
    Reference: http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/kennethnoland/d...
lisa23
Germany
Local time: 04:24
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Works wonderfully in my text! thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Steffen Walter: Or "formal language", as used at http://www.eap.edu/english_cat/graphicarts.htm ("...as well as the development of a proposal and formal language") or at http://www.art-newzealand.com/Issues1to40/abstract.htm
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