22 May First 3 Days in Florence
Florence another beautiful city in Italy. In this city I found art everywhere I looked. From lots of graffiti on the walls in alleys to the museums that hold the remarkable art by Michelangelo and many others. What caught my eye the most was walking around the streets venturing to find our way back to the apartment to sleep was this women. I mean to anyone else it is just a woman on a wall looking at you. To me I saw what was put into it. The time and effort. Drawing a portrait takes time and a lot of patience. A true portrait takes hours even days to complete depending on the scale of it. This one was rather small but had a lot of detail put into very line and shading aspect. I couldn’t even begin to explain how one had done this but I was truly captured by this artwork. Granted, it may considered to be just every other kind of graffiti but it was abstract art to me. Another thing that had caught my interest on the first few days of being in Florence is the sculpture of David. In all honesty I had knew nothing about the statue or the purpose of it. I had found out that Michelangelo had created the piece when he was only 26 years old and it had taken him 4 years to finish. The statue is placed in a museum with other unfitted statues due to starting the sculpture of David. David itself is huge, its placed in a dome with the top closed with glass so the sun can shine down on David and possibly make him look different.
