A Day At The Getty Which Opened To the Public on December 16, 1997 - Art Is In the Eye of the Beholder

There are many places in the museum to view the surrounding foothills. The Getty has 1.2 million feet of stone.

The quarries that supplied the Travertine to the Getty Center were the same ones used by the Romans to build the Colosseum. This travertine limestone was formed in a bubbling mineral rich lake. If you look closely at some of the stones, you can see leaves, feathers, fish, and shells.

A nice place to stop and talk and decide what we want to do.



We have a map and headsets to help us know where to go and explain the various works of art. The museum has seventeenth-century French and Dutch schools; the Impressionists, and important American, German, and Spanish oils.

A New York architect and interior designer Thierry Despont participated with Meier's on the traditionally proportioned interior rooms

A nice view. The museum consists of twenty buildings with the paintings on the second floors so they could have a lot of natural light.

A nice view  of the adjacent foothills.

This is the Garden Terrace Cafe that overlooks the Central Garden. The cafe serves Mediterranean fare and has indoor and outdoor seating. The prices were not inflated like they are at a ballpark. No twelve dollar hot dogs.

Awesome.

You can see Los Angeles from this elevated choice real estate.

Overlooking the Central Garden.

We take a moment to refuel.

Art is in the eye of the beholder.

This piece is titled Angel of the Citadel 1950 by Mario Marini.

While the Getty Museum primarily collects antiquities and pre-twentieth century European art, the Getty Center also features some American and contemporary works.