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The dilettante doesn’t care much about what painting “should be,” only about what it is and has been. And the thing that keeps this standpoint from being utterly trivial is the hint of melancholy in it. The dilettante is interested in all things equally because in the long eye of time all things are equally transient.
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dilettante - showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting" ... He had dawdled over his cigar because he was at heart a dilettante, and thinking over a pleasure to come often gave him a subtler satisfaction than its realisation.
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Morgan Meis reviews 1001 Paintings You Should See Before You Die in a piece entitled A Dilettante's Guide to Art. ... A weird thing happened to painting during the 20th century. In the eyes of many painters and critics, the little problems of painting became the big problem of “Painting” itself.
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Painting any country, or region, or whatnot with a single brush does precisely squat. ... W. Shedd: yes, it looked like Russia, at last, started acting tough against Ukraine -- yes, it did look that way to Russians who trust, to a degree, Russian TV, which was deliberately painting a picture of Russia acting tough.
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The Essence of Choson Painting ... Their works are variously described as belonging to the "amateur school," "literati school," "gentleman's school" or "gentry school." These dilettante painters served both as patrons of the arts and critics.
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dilettante "lover of music or painting," from dilettare "to delight," from L. delectare (see delight). Originally without negative connotation, "devoted amateur," the pejorative sense emerged late 18c. by contrast with professional...
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He is a professor of mathematics, but a dilettante musician. Painting a deft picture of a violin and calling it The Lark Ascending does not give us enough emotional material to evoke either the lark or Ralph Vaughan Williams' wonderful romance for violin.
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"his dilettantish efforts at painting" [syn: dilettante, dilettantish, dilettanteish, sciolistic] n 1: an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge [syn: dabbler, dilettante, sciolist] dilettante - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : 86 Moby Thesaurus words...
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books and publishing ... The Bookish Dilettante Blog RSS ... Summer Reading - Bookish Dilettante Style...
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