J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum, more popularly known as “The Getty”, is recognized as one of the best free museums in the world. With over 1,700,000 satisfied visitors just last year it is obvious that this is a correct claim. There are two locations associated with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in Malibu. The Getty Center is known for their collection of European paintings, drawings, sculptures and illuminated manuscripts. The collection has many famous pieces of art with works from Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh. The museum is dedicated to the study of the arts and offers many public programs. With multiple outdoor exhibits conservation is a main concern at The Getty. To understand…

Have you ever found yourself saying, “something just doesn’t feel right!” or to some degree along those lines? The book “Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking” by Malcolm Gladwell starts out with a similar feeling. Blink opens with the introduction of “The Statute That Didn’t Look Right”, September 1983 an art dealer named Gianfranco entered the Getty Museum located in California. With him he had a brilliantly preserved piece of work that measured near seven feet tall, with a price tag…

The sculptural portrait of Faustina the Elder is made of marble and was sculpted between the years of 140 and 160 A.D. She is a Roman piece by an unknown artist, and is housed in the Getty Villa. Faustina is composed of strong lines and shapes to draw the viewer into the vertical dominant composition. Multiple forms break down into triangular shapes that bring the eye up and down the length of the piece, in order to add some movement to her otherwise static pose. Faustina the Elder stands…

A. Different museums in the L.A. area i. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was first established in 1910 in Exposition Park and in 1965 it was opened to the public in its new Wilshire Boulevard location. Since 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been devoted to collecting works of art is both historic and geographic. Today the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection that includes over 120,000 artworks dating from…

The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light Claude Monet’s The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light is one of a series of thirty paintings of the Rouen Cathedral that Monet produced from 1892-1894 (Harris, Beth, and Steven Zucker. “Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series.”). The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light was acquired by The J. Paul Getty museum in 2001 and is on display as a part of their permanent exhibit on Impressionism in The Getty Center (“The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in…

Paul Getty Museum in California. It was thought by many experts to be legitimate, but when others first looked at it, their initial responses were skeptical. For example, George Despinis, head of the Acropolis Museum in Athens, said "Anyone who has ever seen a sculpture coming out of the ground could tell that that thing has never been in the ground". Gradually, the argument for the legitimacy of the kouros' provenance fell apart. The letters tracing its history turned out to be fakes,…

of research and deep inquiry. (Close, 2007) For example, Diane Matar, a Social Work Education research, used photography in a research study of over 100 politically displaced people in Britain to present a vivid visual representation of the history and timeline of how people sought Asylum. (Phillips & Bellinger, 2010) Additionally, use of digital photography can be found in school reform as described by Halle Preskill (1995). Preskill studies suggest that using still photography is a value and…

Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Blink, suggests that thin-slicing suggests that spontaneous decisions are either better of just as good as carefully planned and considered decisions. Gladwell supports his claim by using examples of how normal, every-day people have had experiences with thin-slicing. Gladwell’s purpose is to use examples of regular people and their experiences with thin-slicing in order to persuade readers that intuitive judgment is developed by experience, training, and knowledge.…

Should Museums Repatriate Ancient Artifacts to their Country of Origin? Ancient artifacts are the symbols of human civilization. All of them are priceless and cannot be measured by currency value. Repatriate is a controversial problem because of the various reasons. For instance, the aggressor took all of the captures back to their home countries and showed them to the public during the war. Voyagers use artifacts as the evidence to prove they had reached those places. Archeologists,…

from the famously known Black Death plague, which was a combination of the bubonic and pneumonic plague. Because of the fall of the Roman Empire, Christianity flourished all over Europe and a feudal system developed in the early Middle Ages creating a hierarchy system based on ones land holdings. The feudal system included: nobles who led a life of entertainment, bourgeoisie middle class merchants and peasants who did manual labor on other peoples land typically nobles. This system…