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Okay. So there's a French word, which is also used in German to describe an artist's workshop. I can't think of it. It's not atelia, or Atelier, depending on your lingo, but there's one that refers specifically to a well decked-out studio/gallery, originally situated in Paris, I guess. Anyway, the name is definitely an eponym of a French artist - which means it is probably glaringly obvious to our art lovers here. So what is it?
p.s. Why do artists always have to inhabit the top floors of buildings, and then make fancy names for what is essentially a loft?
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Why do artists always have to inhabit the top floors of buildings?
So they can get the skylight light, much better than window light for illumination.
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> So they can get the skylight light
Me, fool! Of course, that diffuse light source seeping in from above the picture-plane makes portraits a dream, huh?
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and not just any sky lights, but preferable a north facing one. so they never have direct sun light and harsh shadows, but rather always subdued light..
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Plus the fact that top floor rent is often less.
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Plus the fact that top floor rent is often less.
Hmmm, might be where you are Dr. Bill, but up here in Oz it's normally the other way around. Get a ground floor apartment and you can expect to pay less for rent and more for insurance. Nasty criminal types don't have as far to climb if they want to break in and start carting your gear away.
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Dear hev: I lived in Boston for four years going to medical school. The houses were all getting close to a hundred years old, built in rows with common walls. They had been built as town houses for wealthy people who had left long ago. In most of them the owners lived in lowest two levels. Though there were four murders less than a few hundred yards from where I lived on top floor, I never heard of any burglary. I could walk a couple miles up to theater district late at night without having to worry about being robbed. The girls in the class did too. How things have changed. My daughter was mugged close to the medical school in late seventies, and students were robbed inside the medical school. Right after WWII all the Southern States gave their welfare recipients bus tickets North. A friend from South Carolina told me this, and thought it uproariously funny.
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> but preferable a north facing one
Hey - there IS a southern hemisphere you know.
Leaves - muttering about northern-centric, monocultural unawareness of politically unimportant countries south of zero degrees latitude......which just happen to be fantastic places to live - and paint (with light from a south facing window)
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Is there a word that could be used interchangably that would describe the proper direction to face that is away from the sun that would be appropriate for both the northern and southern hemispheres?
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> but preferable a north facing one
Hey - there IS a southern hemisphere you know.are we to assume, then, that there are no Ascian artists? http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
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