Tuesday, May 20, 2008

GETTY MUSEUM APR 2008

Paul E. Getty Museum trip in LA. The place has a wonderful collection and a nice garden. Everyone's gotta go there if they are visiting LA. The best thing: free admission! Just pay parking fees. That day there was a strange heatwave, we thought it would be cold like the last time I went in June 2 years ago but it was blazing hot. That day we also saw Britney Spears crash her car at the freeway... See this post here regarding that night.


A shot while snacking on a bagel  & chips. We were hungry cuz we didn't have lunch that day. These didn't provide very much shade lol.

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Snakes on your platter anyone? Including some prawns, frogs, lizards and other cool stuff.

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Cameos: left one is a huge pearl incorporated carving and right one is a detailed profile in ivory (?)

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Spanish manuscript illumination: 'The Lamb Defeating the Ten Kings'. It is an imagery of the Apocalypse.

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A Sphinx. I thought it looked rather bizarre and imposing.

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Forgot the name of the painting but it is Christ and John the Baptist.

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I'd love to live in one of these... temporarily. They make you feel very small.

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More! Very lovely reconstructed rooms, however I prefer to live with less excess.

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I felt this was the most striking painting and is my favourite. Almost photo realistic! It's huge too.

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Gotta get a shot of Monet of course. 

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Funky water fountain somewhere above the maze gardens. It was echoing and quite large.

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The  sea looms in the background. Foreground consists of the cactus gardens (not accessible to public).

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Sunset at last. Was a really hot day!

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