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单词 pompier
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Definition of pompier in English:

pompier

noun ˈpɒmpɪəpämˈpyā
  • An artist regarded as painting in an academic, imitative, and vulgarly neoclassical style.

    (以学院派,模仿和庸俗新古典风格作画的)平庸艺术家

    the turn-of-the-century pompiers
    as modifier this pompier artist
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He dismissed Mapplethorpe as a pompier - an artist so concerned with elegance as to have lost touch with the limits of his medium.
    • Vehemently antimodern, he devoted his considerable resources to preserving a tradition embraced by the 19th-century artists he adored, pompiers like William Bouguereau and Jean-Leon Gerome.
    • In terms of this higher morality, the pompier and the poet both have invisible existences, both happen upon laborious roads of the future.
    • Moreover, the increasing academicization of the avant-garde has led to the same kinds of unthinking acceptance and moralizing certitude that once bolstered salon and pompier painting.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French, literally 'fireman', said to derive from the similarity between firemen's helmets and those worn by the Greek gods and heroes depicted by late Classical artists.

Definition of pompier in US English:

pompier

nounpämˈpyā
  • An artist regarded as painting in an academic, imitative, and vulgarly neoclassical style.

    (以学院派,模仿和庸俗新古典风格作画的)平庸艺术家

    the turn-of-the-century pompiers
    as modifier this pompier artist
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Moreover, the increasing academicization of the avant-garde has led to the same kinds of unthinking acceptance and moralizing certitude that once bolstered salon and pompier painting.
    • Vehemently antimodern, he devoted his considerable resources to preserving a tradition embraced by the 19th-century artists he adored, pompiers like William Bouguereau and Jean-Leon Gerome.
    • In terms of this higher morality, the pompier and the poet both have invisible existences, both happen upon laborious roads of the future.
    • He dismissed Mapplethorpe as a pompier - an artist so concerned with elegance as to have lost touch with the limits of his medium.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French, literally ‘fireman’, said to derive from the similarity between firemen's helmets and those worn by the Greek gods and heroes depicted by late Classical artists.

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