artspeak
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The specialist vocabulary and language associated with art and artists, especially when…
The specialist vocabulary and language associated with art and artists, especially when seen as complicated or pretentious.
- Mr. Quinn[…] was uptown exploring the new $26 million, 40,000 square foot museum addition because he takes students to museums as part of a course he teaches in New York on what to say about paintings—artspeak.
- Complication is what artspeak is all about. It seeks to confer status and worth on an artist's work by insisting on its obscurity, which it conveys through a grey porridge of abstract nouns.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA