All About The Getty Museum
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Malibu
Home to warm, sandy beaches and countless stars and the entertainment industry, Malibu is located to the west of Los Angeles County, California, USA. The city has grown from humble beginnings with a native touch to today’s world famous city. The city has a lot of entertainment facilities from beaches, shark pens, National parks, museums etc. Malibu is famous for Malibu Lagoon museum, Adamson House (historic home) and the John Paul Getty Museum. The J. P. Getty museum has exhibitions that let you explore the past, art displayed at the center and villa, educational training, a research and conservation center, bookstore and games, which males it a very interesting facility and museum.
John Paul Getty
He was born in the year 1932, at Minneapolis, Minnesota into a already wealthy family, from the oil business founded by George Franklin Getty. He always promoted culture and gave away approximately £140 million to the cause. He donated significant support for the National Gallery, the British Museum, the British Film Institute, Hereford Cathedral, St Paul’s Cathedral and the Imperial War Museum. Getty also endowed a charitable trust that supports projects that promote the arts, conservation and social welfare. He set up the Getty trust, which established the J. P Getty museum in LA.
Getty Center
The Getty center was established in 1997 after it was separated from the original museum now known as the Getty Villa. The Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome and Etruria. The collection from the old museum was relocated to the new hilltop Getty Center in Brentwood (Los Angeles). The collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present against a backdrop of dramatic architecture, tranquil gardens, and breathtaking views by Getty is displayed at the Getty Center. The design for the Getty Center is by Richard Meier and is the $300 million flagship museum by the J.P. Getty trust. The galleries are housed in four separate two-story towers, which sit on a main three-story building that is closed to the public. Central to the design is a main entry hall, with a circular design that mediates the 22-degree angle between the grid of the gallery buildings and the grid of the administrative buildings to the North.
The design of the Central Garden re-establishes the natural ravine between the Museum and the Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities with a tree-lined walkway. The process of creating the Central Garden began for Irwin in 1992, when he started working with Harold M. Williams and Stephen D. Rountree of the J. Paul Getty Trust in consultation with Richard Meier. Irwin also worked closely with Richard Naranjo, the Getty’s manager of grounds and gardens, and the landscape architecture firm of Spurlock Poirier, in finalizing all facets of the garden.
Art at the Getty
The study of art and cultures is dedicated at the Getty Villa, which is an educational center. The museum has collated a reasonable group of European paintings, a distinguished holding of Greek and Roman paintings, and a significant collection of eighteenth century decorative arts. With more support from Getty, the holdings of the museum increased, it now includes Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiques; European drawings, paintings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts dating to 1900; and American and European photographs, from the 19th century to the present.
All the art is now held at the Getty Center and Getty Villa respectively in Malibu CA.
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