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S

Seurat, Schiele, Segantini, Sargent, Stella, Strindberg, Stubbs, Sweerts, Severini, Sorolla, Signac, great "S"s

Science

Art is made to disconcert, science to reassure

G.Braque

Sculptor

The sculptor is an athlete; he turns around the model and the work in progress

Second assessment

The second assessment is the bread and butter of the expert

J-A-A

Secondhand Dealer

The secondhand dealer is a gold digger in the leftovers of the privileged

J-A-A

See

If people could see and see well, see fully, they would paint. All of them ! And it is because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand painting.

P. Bonnard

Shade

From shade to light: the knowledge of a great art dealer

Shell

Painting owes a lot to the egg: its yolk, its white and even its shell

J-A-A

Signature

The signature is often the godsend for experts. Without it, it would be more difficult

J-A-A

Silence

If private viewings took place in silence, I would be seen in them

J-A-A

Simplicity

One can be used to praise yet live very simply

R-S-M

Site

The akoun.com site is a little jewel. Your passion animates ours with every click.

Durand

Sketch

A sketch is the rough copy of a drawing

J-A-A

Sketching

Sketching means drawing with gusto

J-A-A

Sky

Fortunately the sky is not always grey, so we can change the background of numerous paintings

J-A-A

Snow

Snow is difficult to paint; white is too

J.P.A.A

Solvent

Solvent can never remove a lack of talent

Source

Art takes its source from the artist; the critic bottles it.

J-A-A

Specialist

The amateur or professional specialist is often brighter than anybody else

J-A-A

Speculator

Speculators shouldn't have the right to abode in the world of art

Speech

Man rejects a lot; he spits, he vomits, he breaks wind, he coughs, he blows his nose, he defecates, he urinates, he sneezes, he ejaculates, he bleeds, he cries, he exhales, he secretes; but the worst thing of all is that he speaks. It's just as well that art exists.

J-A-A

Spray

The spray is for the tagger what the paintbrush is for the painter

J-A-A

Stamp

The stamp is the cabinetmaker's signature

Stamp

When there's the artist's stamp there's no need for a signature

Statue

There is nothing static in a beautiful statue; it catches the light and seems to move.

J-A-A

Stencil

At present we couldn't care less about the stencil

Still life

It's a prettier term than the French 'nature morte'

J.P.A.A

Stone

Modern lithographs no longer break either bricks or stones

Stretcher

The stretcher is the backbone of the canvas, it is also a beautiful model

J-A-A

Style

Style and genre are the enemies of personality

J-A-A

Suburb

The suburb produces two sorts of artist: the creative and the athletic

J-A-A

Suffer

Learn to suffer without complaining; learn to consider pain without repugnance; that is when one risks getting giddy.

V. VAN GOGH

Suicide

I think about it and then forget about it. If I am alive it is because of my bad memory.

J-A-A

Supply

Bids and upward movements: supply and demand

J-A-A

by Le AKOUN, International best-seller of valuation books in the field of art since 1985