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it really doesn't translate to a screen very well, but in real life the colours are totally stunning and really really vibrant - it could have been painted yesterday. . . it was hung on a wall with six other pictures and I just sat back on the comfortable seat provided for exactly the purpose of sitting back comfortably and gazed at them
one of the beautiful things about the National Gallery is the stunning design of the halls and rooms, their light and height especially, and the immaculate planing that has gone into the way the pictures are arranged and hung
the colours of the walls change from room to room - one minute you are in a deep brick red room with Renaissance paintings, the next (well, not quite the next minute - quite a few minutes actually) a deep but warm grey for the Impressionists, the Dutch had a kind of eau-de-nil blue/green; there were rooms at the end of corridors that I didn't have time to venture down that were deep sunshine yellow-verging-on-orange; and sometimes I glanced along a corridor between rooms to the left and right which stretched into the distance and the arches of each juncture framed in a kind of architectural perfection the picture hanging way way in the distance on the wall at the opposite end of where I was standing. . .
. . .as if the whole building had been specifically built to show that picture to perfection
wonderful
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Had me humming this tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM
and being a tad bit envious...
I used to sit in the Met and lose myself in the blues of his skies...
add me to the seven deadly list...I'm green.
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what a wonderful outing....I like trying to imagine the wall colors...
my fave…at the Getty here in California…I have seen it several times….and just stood and stared…
Ohmy........what a gorgeous visit I just had. What I didn't get to see from the links, I got to envision by your words.
What an awesome place for sitting and daydreaming, though I think I'd be too much in awe, yaknow?
Though--I mighta hummed...
:-)
Way cool way to spend a Thursday afternoon!
Sounds just like my house.
colourful, achitecturally desirable or full of very well hung things, Dave?
what were you humming Mel? (starry starry night?)
that's another beautiful one Katherine. . . I want to go to California now (even more than I did before!)
no need to be greean shot - just sit back and enjoy the jaunt too!
Sorrow if that's starry starry night, I'll smile hugely
oooh!! I'm smiling hugely!!! thank you!!!
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Lots of pictures, and well-decorated walls, of course.
Oh, and very well-hung.
Ooh - those words and images had my mouth watering.
It's so difficult and expensive to visit London from here.
What a ridiculous state of affairs.
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