Reflecting Culture: The J. Paul Getty Museum

My Humanities Art Experience took place at the Columbus, GA Museum, located on Wynnton Road. I really enjoyed my experience at the museum. It was my first time visiting an American museum. I saw many pieces of fine art, some of which I will list below.

Perhaps illness so influenced the artistic style of Van Gogh, but the picture turned out completely different to all that the artist wrote so far. This is not a Van Gogh, who was known. In the canvas, there is tension, anxiety, dense colors and warm shades of olive-mustard. On the contrary, here there is some kind of lightness, airiness, and transparent weightlessness. On the manner of execution, the pattern resembles Japanese prints: iris field full of peace, a lightness, and transparency. "Irises" are simple and unique, they are striking in their serenity and the ability to remove the internal stress of everyone who saw at least reproduction. Painting simply breathes watercolor, translucency and make to look at it more than one hour.

The Dallas Museum is a renowned art museum established in 1903 and is located in Dallas, Texas (Neumann et al. 19). The Dallas Museum of art is one of the largest art museums in the United States of America containing more than 24,000 collections of art ranging from the ancient to the modern ones (MacDonald & Brettell 112). There are numerous things inside the museum, such as the pieces of art, museum visitors, and the architecture, that relate to the understanding of the world outside the museum in terms of the day to day life and the human society. My goal in this essay is to think outside the box and describe the observations I made inside the museum and explain how they relate to my everyday life, the wider world, or the human society.

When I was younger, my dad and I used to go on dates to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Although I haven’t been there for over five years now, I still remember one piece of art that took my breath away; not because of the beauty of the artwork, but because of the shiver it sent down my spine, and the uneasy feeling I had when I looked at it. The piece of art that made me so apprehensive was a wax model of a museum security guard. The intricate detail of the figure, including the pores in the skin and the hair on the knuckles, left me wondering if this man were going to suddenly leap forward and yell, “Gotcha!”

During Parent’s Weekend at Marquette, my family and I went to the Haggerty Art Museum. While I pleaded with my family to not go, as I am not a huge art fan, my Mom’s opinion overruled mine. From the outside, Haggerty looked like it would be small, but in reality, was quite large. When walking in, I immediately assumed that the art would not make any sense to me like at most art museums. However, I was quickly proven wrong as a lot of the art we saw was what I would consider impressive. They were not the drawings of a line or pieces that look like a child made them that you see at most museums, but what I call “real art”.

For this essay, we were required to go to the Getty Villa in Malibu and look for specific works of art in the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Getty Villa is on a hill adjacent to Malibu beach and requires a reservation to get inside. They do not allow pedestrian entrances, so I had to take public transportation and show proof of my Metro bus receipt to get in. Once inside, I took a shuttle up a curvy hill to the actual museum. When I got to the actual entrance, I was taken aback by how beautiful not only the view was, but the Villa was as well. It did not take me long to find the five artworks.

The Getty museum is absolutely breathtaking. When you step off the tram you are surrounded by white marble and stone above the hectic LA area. The all white buildings allow for a “clean slated” mindset where you are able to open your mind the the pieces within. It sits above the greater Los Angeles area. There are several buildings in which the collections are located, each being two stories. The space contributes significantly to the art in that it allows you to have a clear clean palette in your mind to view the art. With each room being dedicated to a specific time period, it allows one to really move through time and witness the changes that art went through in each time period but also from region to region. There are three

In this museum, we will be showing you artwork throughout history that all shares a similar theme in all of them. All of the art pieces in this museum all involve nature and seascapes, many artists throughout history have drawn nature and the ocean that is around them or beautiful place that they made up, but many of these beautiful landscapes were made with no specific theme in mind except beauty, many of these painting are supposed to depict beauty in the eye of the beholder, but many of these painting may still seem dark and gloomy.

When I toured the Wichita Art Museum, a collection that caught my eye was in the Highlights and Insight section. It is called, Martha Graham Dance Class which is created by Paul Meltsner. My thoughts on this collection is that it bold yet calming to look at. Additionally, Paul Meltsner used deep colors of blues, oranges, reds, and purple, however by using these colors with the characters dancing, his piece is a creation of elegance. Personally, I think this collection stuck out to me because it is an oil on canvas. To add, this art piece stuck out to me because I am a musical person starting from the age of 6 years old, I played the piano so I felt that this creation of ballet was musically drawn to be elegant. Not only does the art express

In the National American Museum there are a lot of things that you can explore and discover. The museum has exhibitions that educates the visitors on the continued Native presence in the region. It also has one of the most extensive collections of Native American artifacts in the world. In terms of the collections growth, the museum continues to focus mainly on modern and contemporary arts. The museum has education programs for people to go to, and learn about their teaching methods. You can learn about the curriculum for the classroom, teacher workshops, and educational strategies.

The J. Paul Getty Museum is located on the West side of Los Angeles and is opened all week with free admission except on Mondays which is closed completely. The Getty is divided into two campuses, the Getty Center and Getty Villa. Although both campuses serve as a major role for the Getty Museum, the Center is what is commonly referred to as the museum. The museum sits at the top of a hill that takes 15-20 minutes to hike. However, a tram is available to haul visitors from the parking lot up to the building which is roughly ¾ of a mile. However, the hill does not stop guest from coming. Nearly 1.8 million visitors come and view the Getty Museum annually.

The Getty Center Museum offers a modern architecture and an outstanding view of Downtown Los Angles. The visitor of Getty Center Museum could reach the premises by car or by taking a public transportation. The Entrance to the parking structure located next to San Diego Freeway. After they parked at Getty Center Parking Structure, the visitor could take a tramway or walk along the sidewalk to get into the main museum. After they reach the Arrival Plaza, the visitor could take the stair to go up to the Rotunda Building where the information booth located at. Inside the rotunda building, on the plaza level, the visitor will see the information desk and the museum entrance hall. At the left side of the information desk, there’s a museum store.

I visited the J Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California in April of 2011. I was on a school trip and at the beginning had no interest in going to this museum. However it being on the itinerary, I just went along. Arriving at the Getty museum you could see how the building was a work of art itself. It was like a sculpture jumping from ancient Greece mixed with a modern flare. Holding over 40,000 pieces I did not know where to begin. Noticing a pamphlet with all the information about the more “famous” paintings I saw the name Van Gogh and recognized it from the art class I was in at the time. Therefore I made my way to this wing of the museum. The title of the Van Gogh piece I saw and what I’m choosing to write about is called ‘Irises’.

Different colors, different faces, diverse cultures and traditions seen in one place- Los Angeles is indeed a “melting pot”. Given this remarkable cultural diversity, issues of unfair treatment still arise. The aim of this journal is to reflect on my experience at the Museum of Tolerance, identify a personal experience where I witnessed unfair treatment of another person, describe the significance of ethics in public health, talk about the relevance of social justice in public health, examine the impact of racism in healthcare, and what can I do as a nurse to stop unfair treatments from happening in healthcare.

Jan van Eyck was active since 1422 and died in 1441. He was the most celebrated painter of the fifteen-century in Europe. One of his famous works is “The Last Judgment”. At first sight this work immediately attracted my attention. The painting’s stunning colors and the fact that it reminded me of a previous similar work I have seen, triggered in my mind. The material that is used is oil on canvas, transferred from wood. The size of this work is 22 1/4 *7 2/3 in. (56.5 * 19.7cm).