Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Getty Art






September 29, 2009
The first floor of the Getty's main building is full of French watercolor paintings. Teddy's favorite was a large piece by Louis de Carmontelle that depicted 18th century aristocrats lounging in a perfectly landscaped park. Teddy also appreciated the 17th century frou-frou fancy ceramics on the second floor. To think that these fragile works of art have stayed around for hundreds of years without getting a single chip or scratch is amazing, right? Nibs was more into the sculptures...

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  2. by the way, no one could take photos of the BRONZE exhibit because the works of art were on loan. No one can photograph borrowed art. I didn't know that!

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  3. i love all this art, I feel like I am AT the museum myself, thanks Teddy!

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  4. i like the ceramics. they look like they belong in the Palace of Versailles

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  5. The last painting is FABULOUS. I have seen it before and it's breathtaking. The park that is painted is not real, it's from the painter's imagination. I wish such a park existed. :)

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  6. the fourth painting looks so rural... love it.

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  7. the 3rd one is interesting: it's a painting of a wealthy woman who does gardening as a hobby. it was popular back then for rich people to toy with gardening... but they didn't really do much except prune, etc... in other words, they didn't want to get their hands dirty

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  8. love the last one. too bad the park is not real...

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  9. HOW WERE U ABLE TO TAKE ALL THESE PHOTOS INSIDE THE GETTY??????? DID TEDDY GET IN TROUBLE?

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