A Visit to the Getty Museum

This museum is unique from the moment you arrive there. The parking structure is completely segregated from the museum itself so you have to take a three to five minute tram ride to the entrance of the museum. The museum is located on a hill that looks down on the LA basin and so it is almost completely isolated from any roads or freeways. The tram takes you right to the entrance and the first place you walk into is the museum entrance hall, where they have pamphlets and instruction boards which shows the whole mus

The next building I went into was the East Pavilion. Here most of the artworks are from the 1600fs. The first thing you will see is the European sculptures of that time, dating from 1600 A.D. to about 1650 A.D. It said that these particular sculptures are baroque sculptures where they represent an instantaneous moment of action. These were interesting to see because of the unique positions they are portraying. Every muscle and joints are realistically made, almost looking like a real person. Like in the North Pavilion, many of the sculptures represented Roman Gods. The next section was tapestries. It is said that these tapestries where used by Louis XIV in France. The Tapestries were huge cloth taking up the whole wall to display and are covered with numerous pictorial designs and figures. The glamour and power of Louis XIV can be felt from these tapestries. At a time when France was a world power and absolute monarch rule prohibited import goods, you can tell that France had the best craftsmen in the world just by looking at these tapestries. Most interesting section in this building was the exhibition on Michelangelo To Vasari. Here some sketches and actual masterpieces were on display. I found his works to be a little odd. His works looked a little gory and gruesome to me, not that what he was drawing was that way but it was how he draws. He shades the drawing in a sad way using a monotone color.

The last building I went into was the West Pavilion. This building is where the photographic artworks are displayed. When I went there was only one exhibition open to the public. This exhibit was titled Strange Days, and it had photographs from the sixties taken by three photographers; Winogrand, Eggleston, and Arbus. Of course all of the photographs were black and white pictures. After seeing artifacts from hundreds of years ago, it felt odd looking at photographic pictures of only 40 years ago. I had only seen the gsixtiesh in movies or on television so to see a picture capturing the real

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