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escogencia

English translation: choice

15:57 Mar 28, 2023
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
Spanish term or phrase: escogencia
This is an interview with the son of Venezuelan artist Cruz-Diez, who worked closely with his father

Desde niño estuve involucrado en el proceso creativo artística porque para mi padre no había distinción entre hogar y taller, siempre fueron la misma cosa. Durante mi adolescencia en París, en paralelo a mis estudios, trabajaba como su ayudante en la elaboración de útiles y máquinas que inventaba para fabricar sus obras. Cada máquina constituía un desafío que nos llevaba a investigar sobre diseño, escogencia y adecuación de materiales. Las obras de mi padre son sistemáticas, programadas con una lógica concebida mucho antes de la masificación del ordenador.

What I am seeing on the web has to do with choice (which makes sense: escoger), but I don't understand it in this context.
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Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 23:37
English translation:choice
Explanation:
"Choice of materials" means deciding which ones to use.

http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=esco...

Discuss how an artist’s choice of materials such as using mixed media on burlap assists in expressing the message that an author is attempting to convey.
http://brainly.com/question/13352917

...seem to be making blatant and, the artist admits, rather controversial political statements, in part through his choice of materials.
http://www.invaluable.com/blog/innovative-artists-accessible...

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Note added at 1 hr (2023-03-28 17:05:14 GMT)
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Perhaps I didn't make it clear that it's "escogencia de materiales".
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philgoddard
United States
Grading comment
thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4choice
philgoddard
4selection
Alberto de Antonio Rivera
3 -1curatorial selection
Sakshi Garg
2 -1selectability (of materials)
Adrian MM.


Discussion entries: 4





  

Answers


17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
curatorial selection


Explanation:
proceso de selección y organización de obras de arte o literatura para una exposición o publicación, con el objetivo de crear una experiencia cohesiva y significativa para el público

Sakshi Garg
India
Local time: 08:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  philgoddard: No, it's not the curator, it's the artist.
49 mins
disagree  AllegroTrans: Nothing to do with curatorship; this is about the artist's son choosing suitable materials etc. to help his father
1 hr
neutral  O G V: selección de materiales= materials selection, selection of materials, would work here. You can delete this wrong answer and post it :)
2 hrs
neutral  Juan Jacob: Curioso, su perfil no indica que "maneje" el español.
3 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
choice


Explanation:
"Choice of materials" means deciding which ones to use.

http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=esco...

Discuss how an artist’s choice of materials such as using mixed media on burlap assists in expressing the message that an author is attempting to convey.
http://brainly.com/question/13352917

...seem to be making blatant and, the artist admits, rather controversial political statements, in part through his choice of materials.
http://www.invaluable.com/blog/innovative-artists-accessible...

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Note added at 1 hr (2023-03-28 17:05:14 GMT)
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Perhaps I didn't make it clear that it's "escogencia de materiales".

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 52
Grading comment
thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marie Wilson
7 mins
agree  AllegroTrans
23 mins
agree  Helena Chavarria
33 mins
agree  Diego Lopez
1 hr
disagree  Adrian MM.: ignores the asker's doubts and the contrast with escogimiento.
4 hrs
agree  neilmac: Or selection.
13 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
selection


Explanation:
"...nos llevaba a investigar sobre diseño, escogencia y adecuación de materiales." = "...led us to investigate on design, selection and adequacy of materials." Cheers.


Alberto de Antonio Rivera
Spain
Local time: 04:37
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: ..on THE design...
45 mins
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): -1
selectability (of materials)


Explanation:
Even if the Non-Pro Voters cannot get their heads around the point(s), I can see the venerable asker's quandary over a dull-thud, categoric and mindless 'choice' that IMO is 1. the wrong part of speech as 2. a prospective decision about potential materials and needs to contrast with 3. escogimiento - a substantive form I had always wondered about as the 'right choice'.

Methinks Helena C. is closer to the mark with suitability, notably an 'amenability to selection', except 'adecuación' > suitability or fitness immediately follows the word in point.

PS the first web ref. *IS* - whether laterally or tangentially - relevant to the question.

Example sentence(s):
  • This selection process can be characterised by application prerequisites, *potential materials*, physical principles, and selection.

    Reference: http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english-to-spanish/computers-gener...
Adrian MM.
Austria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: wrong part of speech? how?
53 mins
disagree  Juan Jacob: "Even if the Non-Pro Voters cannot get their heads around the point(s)"... talking to me?
1 hr
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