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  2009

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  renefijten

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  A facade in Visé, Belgium. The house is from about 1920, and has a beautiful asymmetry. All of Visé was rebuilt around that time; WW1 left the town in complete ruins. http://renefijten.blogspot.com/
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  roseindigo 10:13 am on June 16, 2009 | #

  Architecture with charm, something we have not enough of out here in the West. Most buildings were built to be temporary or utilitarian, which has a different sort of interest to it. But it’s only in the higher class neighborhoods that one finds architecture with charm. This is a lovely watercolor.

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  Rudat 11:40 am on June 16, 2009 | #

  It seems cheerful, quaint and charming. As you say, roseindigo, so different from the “boxes” of today. Nice, renefijten!

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  Sophie Brown 5:16 pm on June 16, 2009 | #

  This reminds me of the blue and white china I always liked. Also, I live in NYC and I was walking around today and just started realizing the quaint architecture, all these different shaped windows and styles right next to each other. Copper roofs and gargoyles and god knows. But then when I was in CO where I grew up the houses in the suburbs were just built and they only had 4 houses to choose from and they were several monotonous colors. Buildings generally would be a good thing to work on because then you can kind of see the buildings more, you start to pay attention. But I think that blue and white looks pretty no matter what you’re painting. Blue and white just work out well most of the time.

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  renefijten 12:11 pm on June 17, 2009 | #

  Thanks for your kind remarks. Yes it’s a beautiful house, although the actual location is not so romantic as the picture suggest, along a busy street with large dull, grey buildings around. Indeed, you can find the same in NYC, detailed diamonds between large uninviting brownstones.

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