LOS ANGELES:
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center If you’ve never been to the J. Paul Getty Museum in
by joel martens
It is art that shows us who we are, who we once were, where we have come from and gives us context for how we can gauge human experiences. It freezes time, record- ing our idealism, our condemnation, our joys, sorrows and terrors, humankind’s souls displayed for all to see. On canvas, sculpted in marble, executed in steel and glass, housed in museums across the land and begging for its story to be discovered. Come explore and look deeply, learn something beyond what you might know—and discover the very nature of human existence.
“Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could
the world see the man within.” -Claudia Johnson
Los Angeles, this is a bucket list must-see for a num- ber of reasons. Its breathtaking location designed by famed architect Richard Meier is one of its main attractions. The Getty sits high atop a 900-foot hill above the Brentwood neighborhood and consists of a 24-acre campus on a 110-acre site surrounded by a 600-acre nature preserve in the Santa Monica Mountains. If you have ever wanted to understand how the city of Los Angeles is laid out, this is the place to do it, you can see Downtown’s skyline, the Pacific Ocean as well as the San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains from this single location. Choose a clear day, my friends, because L.A.’s smog can be mind- boggling and just a little terrifying. The Getty Center branch features a vast collection
of pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts as well 19th- and 20th-century American, Asian, European paintings, sculpture and photography and so much more it’s staggering. Classical artists in their collection recognizable by most include, Fra Angelico, Fra Bartolommeo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo, Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Van Dyke, Rembrandt, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas to name just a few.
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