| 单词 | sunday painter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSunday painter Sunday painter n. an amateur painter; a person who paints purely for pleasure; (also) a painter not trained in a formal manner; a naive (naive adj. 2b) painter.The use relating to professional or other publicly known painters is most commonly applied to Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), who worked as a customs officer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > painter > amateur amateur1757 Sunday painter1925 1925 New Yorker 11 July 11/1 The Sunday painter is to the art-artist what the Sunday driver is to the owner of the Hispano or Rolls-Royce. 1939 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 34 64/2 The grass-striped street, the half-grown trees, and the dark picket fence are recorded as literally as this simple Sunday painter [sc. Rousseau] could manage. 1961 M. Leake tr. J. Bouret Henri Rousseau 170 After the publication of this text [sc. R. Grey's Henri Rousseau] in 1922, the label ‘Sunday-painters’ became attached to the naïf and primitive painters and to the popular realist masters, and still survives. 1980 B. Bainbridge Winter Garden xii. 88 He supposed they were Sunday painters, rather like Churchill and Roosevelt. 2004 P. Wollen Paris Manhattan v. 72 Like the Douanier Rousseau, another rare example of a ‘Sunday painter’ who was promoted into the canon, she [sc. Frida Kahlo] knew and was admired by famous fellow artists. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。