optimistic pessimist
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Dear all,
This is a part of a passage in which how contrastively the amateur painter and the professional choose a subject is explained.
"...He (the professinal painter) prefers scenery the amateur painter would reject as plain or uninteresting. The professional prefers this type of scenery because of the challenge it offers to his skills as a painter; to see beauty where it is not easy to see, to create order where the natural elements are confused, in short, to make art from nature."
In the second sentence, a semicolon is placed between "his skills as a painter" and "to see beauty where it is not easy to see". In the context, it seems to me, "his skills as a painter" is paraphrased by "to see beauty where...to make art from nature" .
If so, I think a colon ), rather than a semicolon( is normally used. Is it okay to use a colon in the sentence above? If not, why not?
Thank you!
OP
This is a part of a passage in which how contrastively the amateur painter and the professional choose a subject is explained.
"...He (the professinal painter) prefers scenery the amateur painter would reject as plain or uninteresting. The professional prefers this type of scenery because of the challenge it offers to his skills as a painter; to see beauty where it is not easy to see, to create order where the natural elements are confused, in short, to make art from nature."
In the second sentence, a semicolon is placed between "his skills as a painter" and "to see beauty where it is not easy to see". In the context, it seems to me, "his skills as a painter" is paraphrased by "to see beauty where...to make art from nature" .
If so, I think a colon ), rather than a semicolon( is normally used. Is it okay to use a colon in the sentence above? If not, why not?
Thank you!
OP
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