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modellata "alla prima"

12:56 Aug 11, 2013
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / sculpture
Italian term or phrase: modellata "alla prima"
Si parla della scultura "Gare invernali" di Arturo Martini.

La figura femminile, in terracotta rossa, è modellata “alla prima”, con effetti di increspature luministiche molto vivaci, la figura maschile (refrattario giallastro) è invece resa con il modellato asciutto ed essenziale che ricorre anche nel coevo Aviatore.

Non ho la più pallida idea come si chiama questo nell'ambito della scultura in inglese...se qualcuno sa darmi una dritta...
Alicia Eastman
Italy
Local time: 11:32


Summary of answers provided
4 +1Wet-on-wet
Sally Quinn
4Alla prima or Direct painting
Josephine Cassar


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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Wet-on-wet


Explanation:
a painting technique, used mostly in oil painting, in which layers of wet paint are applied to previous layers of wet paint. This technique requires a fast way of working, because the work has to be finished before the first layers have dried


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-on-wet
Sally Quinn
United States
Local time: 05:32
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: Or, as the first line of your reference says, alla prima.
1 hr
neutral  Michael Korovkin: Il problema è che qui si parla di una ceramica – la figura in terracotta – e non di pittura.
1 day 19 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Alla prima or Direct painting


Explanation:
Painting that is completed when paint is still wet.
See reference:http://painting.about.com/od/artglossarya/g/defallaprima.htm

Josephine Cassar
Malta
Local time: 11:32
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in MalteseMaltese
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Michael Korovkin: Il problema è che qui si parla di una ceramica – la figura in terracotta – e non di pittura.
1 day 19 hrs
  -> See philgoddard's answer, but true, except that when it speaks about the woman, it specifies all'asciutto
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