释义 |
‖ pasticheur|pastiʃœr| [Fr., f. pastiche.] An artist who imitates the style of another artist.
1912R. Fry Let. 3 Feb. (1972) I. 353 One doesn't like to be called a pasticheur... I've always been searching for a style to express my petite sensation in. 1913Nation 2 Aug. 676 A skill which might lead him [sc. C. Brancuzi], in default of any overpowering imaginative purpose, to become a brilliant pasticheur. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 329 The dog-Latin classicism of the post-war pasticheurs. 1944Burlington Mag. Mar. 71/2 Steer, on the other hand, was a pasticheur and to say of him that he ‘was beyond doubt the greatest of our landscape painters since Turner and Constable’..is as meaningless as it is ridiculous. 1958Observer 7 Dec. 16/4 The obvious accusation against Betjeman is that he is a pasticheur—and it is certainly true that he has scarcely ever written a poem which was not, quite consciously, in the manner of someone else. 1964[see pastiche n.]. 1973Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 5 For many he [sc. Picasso] was one of the great creators of his age. To others he was at best an accomplished pasticheur and at worst a mountebank. 1976Gramophone Apr. 1643/3 Karg-Elert (1877–1933) was a pasticheur, too, and even a consciously humorous parodist in some of his miniatures. |