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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Art history, c 1800 | | German term or phrase: Aktsaal | | I am translating some of the letters of Caspar David Friedrich and his brothers and friends. This letter describes a visit by Friedrich, Graf, Faber and some others to an "Ackt Saal" where some people were drawing (zeichnen). Is this a room specifically for painting nudes in the modern sense or just a "drawing room" |
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Armorel Young
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 life drawing room
Explanation:
It seems likely that if several people are drawing together (rather than immediately painting), they are at the same place because there is a model to sketch.
The Royal Academy has a 'life drawing room' (see ref. below)
Venue
Royal Academy Schools
Life Drawing Room
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
http://www.newenglishartclub.co.uk/drawing_school.asp
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Asker: Thanks a lot. I thought this might be the best option but I wanted to be sure.
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 life room, life drawing room
Explanation:
Drawing the naked figure is called life drawing, and the room in which it is done is the life room.
Figure drawing, also called Life Drawing, is drawing the naked human form.
http://drawsketch.about.com/od/lifeclasses/a/firstlifeclass....
This course is designed to provide you with an introduction to the skills required to draw from the life model. ... You will be taught about the etiquette of the life room at the start of the course. The model will be directed by the tutor to assume a series of short poses, to enable you to warm up and begin to observe.
http://www.leeds-art.ac.uk/home/studying/short-courses/lifes...
In most art schools the life drawing room was once central to learning, allowing students to observe the human form and render it into a two dimensional form.
http://www.thisistomorrow.info/viewArticle.aspx?artId=159&Ti...
| Armorel Young
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| | Grading comment | Thanks again Amorel, especially for all the references. |
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Asker: Thanks Amorel. This is what I thought the correct translation would be and was suggested by "8transla8" too. I wanted to be sure I was using the right term.
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