I visited The Getty Museum for my second even blog. After I parked, I took a tram to go up the hill and arrived at the entrance of the museum. I picked up a copy of the map and started walking around. The Getty does not charge an admission fee. Parking is $15 so I recommend carpooling.
First, I went down to the Central Garden. The central garden which was filled with red
flower looked like a maze.
I believe these flower hanging racks are made with some type of metal, but they looked like trees with blooming flowers.
According to getty.edu, the garden was created by artist Robert Irwin. New plants are constantly added and Irwin describes the garden, "Always changing, never twice the same" . I would love to visit there again to see the change.
The museum is divided into four buildings, North, South, East, and West Pavilions. These distinctions are based on the years when the exhibits were created. Second floor of the West Pavilion where the world famous paintings are exhibited were especially crowded.
The curator told me that this painting behind us is their newest collection. He told me that they paid 65 million dollars to purchase this piece, “Spring”. It is painted by a French artist, Edouard Manet, who was a profoundly important figure to the development of Impressionism and to the course of art into the twentieth century, according to getty.edu. 89.3KPCC reports that “Spring” was intended to be one of the “Four Seasons” by this late-19th century French artist but the series was never completed. I would have liked to see all four paintings next to each other.
I stopped by at the children’s shop and I found a drawing book and a volcano making kit displayed next to each other. It reminded me of our week 1 theme, two cultures. For children, there is no clear separation between art and science. However, as Charles Percy Snow says “the intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups”, children start to draw in art class and they start to learn about volcano in science class. Unfortunately that is how they start separating art and science so I was happy to find these two books together.
I would like to conclude my blog with the beautiful view from the West Pavilion. According to Map & Guide to the Getty Center, the round shaped garden at the edge of the white wall in the picture below is Cactus Garden and the garden is a re-creation of a desert landscape. By employing efficient irrigation techniques and introducing more drought-tolerant plants, the Getty has been able to cut water use by more than 30 percent. It is very important to have such a water-saving irrigation technique especially in California where we have been facing a serious drought.
References
"Gardens | Getty Center." The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 May 2015. <http://www.getty.edu/visit/center/gardens.html>.
"Édouard Manet (Getty Museum)." The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 May 2015. <http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/2911/douard-manet-french-1832-1883/>.
"The Getty's New $65M Manet: 'Spring' from an Artist in the Autumn of His Life." Southern California Public Radio. N.p., 26 Nov. 2014. Web. 04 May 2015. <http://www.scpr.org/blogs/offramp/2014/11/26/17614/the-getty-s-65m-new-manet-spring-from-an-artist-in/>.
Snow, C. P. "1 The Two Culture." The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. New York: Cambridge UP, 1959. 4. PDF. 4 May 2015.
Map & Guide to the Getty Center. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2014. Print.
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