La peinture est aussi un artisanat. Sur les degrés de spécialisation dans les textes traitant de la problématique de la couleur dans la peinture
A Painter is also an Artisan: On the Degrees of Specialisation in Texts Related to the Issues of Colour in Painting

Summary/Abstract: The colour in art is a complicated issue that concerns not only art historians, but also chemists, who prepare new pigments, and painters themselves. The body of texts related to colours in art is thus extremely diversified. The aim of this article is to verify how terms relating to “perceived” colours and the “material” colours (the pigments) can function in specialised texts. Adopting the point of view represented by the theory underlying the existence of different variations in terminology (so-called théorie variationniste de la terminologie) we study the morphology and the syntax of colour terms. Our main goal is to verify the hypothesis stating that not only the choice of terms, but also their insertion in a right context depends on the degree of specialisation of the given text. The article is an attempt to characterize the different types of texts in their terminological layer.

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