What happens when we move art from one medium to another? A series of renderings.
Lost in Translation?
What happens when we move art from one medium to another?
A rendering, as in the Oxford English Dictionary:
“Anglo-Norman render, rendir, Anglo-Norman and Middle French rendre to give again, to give in return, to give in exchange, to give back, to produce, yield (10th cent. in Old French), to let go, give up, to surrender (c1100; 12th cent. in reflexive use, ‘to give up, surrender’), to pay (service) to (c1100), to bring or put (someone) into a particular state or condition, to make (c1100), to emit, give out, give off, to vomit, to bring up, to deliver, take, lead, to pay, pay off, to pay for, to pay (compensation) for (all 12th cent.), to repeat, report (c1200), to deliver or give up (a person) to a religious life (13th cent.), (in legal use) to surrender, transfer (13th cent. in Anglo-Norman), to pronounce (sentence, judgement, etc.) (c1320), to translate word for word, to represent, reproduce, portray (16th cent.) < post-classical Latin rendere (6th cent.), alteration (probably through association with prendere prend v.) of classical Latin reddere to give back, restore, to repay, to cause to reappear, to expel, throw up, to throw back (an image), reflect, to echo, to reproduce in speech, repeat, to utter in reply, to pay, discharge, to allot, appoint, to ascribe, attribute, to hand over, to surrender, to deliver, to give an account of, set forth, to give (judgements), to produce, yield, to bring forth, to bring about, to cause to be or become, in post-classical Latin also to recite from memory (4th cent.), to perform (7th cent.), to fulfil, carry out (8th cent.) < re- re- prefix + dare to give (see datum n.). Compare Catalan †rendre (13th cent.), Spanish rendir (12th cent.; in early use more commonly render ), Portuguese render (13th cent.), Italianrendere (13th cent.). Compare also ( < classical Latin reddere ) Old Occitan redre , retre , Catalan retre .”
