Remember the Days of Your Youth by bmac62
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...Remember your first trip to an art museum? I am sure the children on the right will remember this day for a lifetime.
Zoom worthy for the Corinthian and Ionic Greek marble columns.
This scene in a large entrance hall of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City made me think fondly of my maternal grandmother. She introduced me to the great museums of New York City when I was a boy about the same age as these school children.
My favorites were the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History.
Where and who introduced you to art and history?
Bill:)
"The Collector"
Comments (42)
Interesting place ! Aesome shot Bill
Interesting place and capture!
Superb POV and DOF evident in this photo of the awesome columns and interior of this magnificent edifice, Bill. I believe I was in my twenties when I first visited my first art museum. In fact, I was a student in art school before I ever visited one.
I remember going to an art museum as a child ... it must have been in Tacoma. Now I'll have to figure out which one it was! Aside from that ... there was a book called "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg that left a big impression on me museum-wise, and a game called "Masterpiece," which introduced me to a lot of fantastic art. I just love these columns ... what a great room!
wonderful. I love to go to these places
Hmmm, I'm not sure I've ever been to an art museum.
You are so right Bill...used to be such an exciting thing to do...well, for me it still is lol
Great capture.
What an image! Those gaudy black and gold columns (mostly black-ish, and gold) look more Roman actually: the ancient Romans were a clever bunch of people with...um...shall we say colorful taste in architecture and art. I learned, if it's gaudy, it's Roman. They invented "bling" you know, and I suspect they also invented those annoying spinners you see on inner city hubcaps (they used them on inner-city chariots.) Anyway, I love this shot and the sense of space you captured here. I think my first memorable museum experience was the first time King Tutanhamun's belongings were put on display at Chicago's Field Museum. I was about 8 years old and my uncle got free tickets to see the exhibit. We got to go to the front of the long, serpentine line, and when I went in, I was enthralled by--of all things!--the tomb wall drawings, particularly the one of King Tut himself offering bowls of wine to the God Osiris. I loved the fact that those ancient guys worshiped gods and goddesses who all looked like extras from the bar scene in Star Wars. That was so cool! To this day, I still remember that, and I also realize that's when I got obsessed with ancient Egyptian culture enough to learn how to make beer (ancient Egyptian beer was thick enough to eat with a spoon and was nasty enough to require the use of honey for flavor-disguise.) I also learned how to make mummies and attempted one with a dead bird that I tried to dessicate with salt under the basement stairs. Needless to say that endeavor didn't work as my mother wasn't into having our basement turned into an ancient Egyptian funeral parlor for random dead things. Okay, that was my first memorable museum experience, and this image actually captures that perfectly! This is brilliant!
This does bring back memories. I always loved the Chicago museums when my parents took me and my siblings as kids. Didn't matter which one, there was always something that caught my eye in the "real cool" department.
Museums opened a world of adventure! Great capture and use of the pov.
Beautiful - my first impression when I saw this. My interest in history and art is pretty much defined by a trip to London in 2003. There I was blown away by the fact that in the UK there are buildings older than the establishment of a Dutch colony here in 1652. Otherwise it was being dragged to museums in Pretoria at an early age by parents and school. Thanks for the trip down a historical lane! Clive