Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Lost in Art History

Williamsburg

If you ever have the chance to go to Williamsburg in Virgina I highly recommend it. Especially if you enjoy architecture. Most of the buildings are made of beautiful red brick. The outside of the buildings are mostly rectangular shape but the windows make each building come alive. The insides of the buildings were mostly dark making it hard to get an accurate view of the entire room.

At times is seems as thought the dark shadows are creating a feelings of someone watching you. With the smell, age, and history that each building possesses an emotional detachment comes over you and you become part of the building. You feel as though you are living the past. Some of the mercantile shops along the dirt roads gave examples of the kinds of things there were needed for this neighborhood. I saw a blacksmith, shoe maker, bread makers, doctor shop and agriculture shop. I have too many picture to post them all but I thought that these photograph s would give a great example of reflective art work. The inside of the building would create a great abstract painting. A place like this is full of great art.

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