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Getty Museum
The Getty Museum is a museum of art. When first experiencing this wonderful museum I noticed many aspects that tied in with our course material with how art can be intermixed with many subjects like technology even on accident. This is experienced with the strategic lighting of the exhibits and the three-car, cable-pulled hovertrain funicular . The Getty Center is located in Los Angeles and has only been open to the public for 20 years. J. Paul Getty originally opened the museum as just an expanse off his house, but later expanded further.
"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor." -J. Paul Getty
 

The Getty Museum is also a good representation of the "Two Cultures" we learned about way back at the beginning. Professor Vesna mentioned how it is actually becuase of modern times that the two cultures, art and science, have been separated. This seperation started "around the era of industrialization and enlightenment" (Two Cultures Part 1). The Getty museum is a museum strictly for art.  Although, their is very little modern art featured and more art from the past.  It feels as if you are being transported back in time. This was especially true as I walked through "The Lure of Italy" exhibit. 




During the time this art was created, art and science were still part of one culture. That is also part of the beauty we can see directly in these peices of art. The combination of the two cultures is shown in the sculptures and woodwork and many of the pieces. Now in modern times, with this museum's placement and strictly art exhibits, in a literal sense, J. Paul Getty was trying to seperate art from science, technology, math, and medicine. 


 
"My love of fine art increased- the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see"
-J. Paul Getty
Sources
1.Vespa, Victoria. "Two Cultures." N.p., n.d. Web. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpAo6_f0jeU>.
2.Vesna, Victoria. "TwoCultures Part1." YouTube. YouTube, 30 Mar. 2012. Web. 06 June 2017. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNI7dF3DIAM>.
3.Vesna, Victoria. ""Two Cultures Part 2"." N.p., n.d. Web. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUr4xxZ_0gw>.
4.Vesna, Victoria. "Two Cultures Part 3." N.p., n.d. Web. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FOEuxrwxd0>.
5.N.p., n.d. Web. <https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/j_paul_getty.html>.
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7.N.p., n.d. Web. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Center>
8.Jenna Hurst's Camera, The Getty Museum. Personal photograph by author. 2017.

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