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? asked in Education & ReferenceWords & Wordplay · 1 decade ago

Painters with names commonly mispronounced?

Hi everyone,

I am writing a screenplay with a scene where an elderly couple quarrels over the name of a painter.

Have been searching on google for painters with funny names, but it's hard to get my searches relevant.

Does any art enthusiast knows any painter with his/her name commonly mispronounced?

It will be nice if you can provide me with the correct pronouciation and the wrong one as well. Write them in gibberish like.

PICASO - PEEE KARRR SOOOO. or something ...

It will be good if he has an wikipedia page as well, I need brief information as well to fill in my dialogues.

Any help is much appreciated.

Update:

do take note this scene takes place in a museum and therefore it MUST be a painter.

not arts of any other form, like an architect or sculptor.

J: your answer is much appreciated, but he's an architect. not quite the right one i am looking for. :/

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Many people are guilty of mangling French painters names:

    Claude Monet (Moe-NAY, not MON-net) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

    Edgar Degas (Duh-GAH, not DEE-gas ... or DAY-gah) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas

    Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Run-WAHR, not Ruh-NOY-er) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas

    Paul Gauguin (Go-GAA ((a as in cat)), not GAW-gwin) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin

  • picador
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I suspect that people - even those that speak only English - would either be familiar with the correct pronunciation or not know of the artist at all. But if you need an example, you could pick any foreign name and use the Anglicized version. Rodin - Rod-din. Monet - Mon-net. Utrillo - Yoo-trillo.

  • Barbara
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Besides Vincent Van Gogh (but I go along with the majority and mispronounce it "Van Go" except in Holland), the Swiss/German Paul Klee (pronounced "Clay") and French Edgar Degas (pronounced "DAY-gah") come immediately to mind.

    Antonio Gaudi is an excellent candidate (I've heard him mispronounced as Go-die, Gah-die and Goddy) but his art is architecture.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Yeah, people do that all the time. So, from now on, I'm gonna have people call me Manny, like my gf calls me. VIVA LA RAZA!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Antonio Gaudi

    Correctly : An-tone-eee-oh Gow-dee

    Incorrectly : An-tone-eee-oh Gor-dee OR An-tone-eee-oh Gow-die

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