Getty Museum

The Getty Museum is an enormous museum I ever had a visit in U.S.A. Everything in the Getty Museum is an art include buildings, backgrounds, market, and exhibitions inside the buildings. There is a long beautiful pool between two buildings, wonderful green trees, small- rounded cactuses, the cactus flowers that I do not know a name, and some trees placed in snake shape. In addition, a scene of a city and mountain first and second floor was really great. There are total about six buildings, and four buildings have different exhibitions such as past European paintings, royal furniture, Greece mysterious gods, photos, ceramics, sculptures, and Christianity paintings (my mom loves the candles).

European paintings are so classical and have several specific details with a detailed brush - touch. So, it seemed like the plants, waves, and people alive and move at any moment. For instance, folding parts of the robe which Roman pope was where were painted in dark red (the deepest part), light red (top surface of folding), and red paint (in between dark and light red paintings). This man holding a book, its each page was well disrupting. This is another example: there is a landscape painting of the port. It just seems simpler wave when I see it from farther direction but I could see several shapes of the waves like a seagull, half- rounded curve, and etc.- when I came to the painting closely. These waves seem to move, and it makes me feel like I stood on port to watch the wave.

Royal furniture is extremely magnificence with decorated pieces such as angel, human, and lion feet. Some furniture legs have the lion feet, and I make a small theory about it like lion feet means power, leadership, and charisma of a king. Royal candles hang on the wall or top of the room. These candles will be bright like a star if put a fire on the candles.

Two rooms were about Greece mystery gods (one is painted and one is sculpture). I could see Athena, Venus, and other mystery gods I plasters or bronze form. I didn’t recognize they are Greece gods at first, they have very smooth surface, so it doesn’t seem like it was made by plasters or bronze. The sculptor gave specific details on each piece of clothes, hair, and expressions include its paintings. Unlike the sculpture, the paintings show a scene about the mysteries of the gods involved with more than one god.

There are also two rooms for Christianity paintings. One room I did not stay in some minutes, there are too many rooms to see it; however, I stayed another room some minutes. These paintings were about the scenes that how Jesus got tortured, died, and rebirth. It also has an amazing brush touch.

There is room for photo exhibition but I didn’t like this exhibition because I am not like to take photos even though I like drawing and making, and I could not understand the photos such as part of the human face or building.

After I visited to this museum, I learned some lessons that the past art works are very classical and can call it ‘art’ when I compare to current art. Some current art works are deteriorating and cannot call it ‘art’ like the photos of hitting the scene. All current art has diversity but involved less art technique and abilities like brush touch, color variation, detail, and color balance.