I visit the Getty Art Center.

The Getty Center is a beautiful place to visit, and since I’m at UCLA, it’s only a ten minute drive for me, either by car or by public transportation (bus).

Here’s the main entrance:



Upon entering, you make a left immediately, and you are graced by a long nice white hall, which to your right, is accompanied by tons of parked school buses, with the drivers still inside, waiting impatiently:



Is this where bad people go? To the Getty parking lot, consigned to an endless purgatory of waiting for little loud hyperactive kids to return, filling the school buses with noise and jeers, and giving the drivers a headache?

Who knows? I quickly walked past….

…. To the tram station.




The little kid in the front window was really cute, he waved at me as he approached in the tram:



Later on, after a short trip, out into the main entrance of the Getty Center, where you’re greeted by simplistic architecture, and a nice blue sky:





The main exhibit hall is situated next to the courtyard, and part of the gardens:



… which were right below me:



I personally enjoyed the main hall, it’s so, white, and light, and main hall-y:



The view outside is quite nice:





Here’s the main plaza, since the Getty Center itself is divided amongst into four buildings, mostly:



Another shot of the main courtyard:



And some more of the gardens, which include the enormous floating flower bed! It’s all so very lovely:




… and then some really nice lady took a pic of me:



I’ll get back to the great outdoors later. For now, let’s go inside and look at some classical art!

Here are some early medieval Christian…. Er….. not quite sure what these are, but they looked nice, so I took pictures of ‘em!




Elsewhere, are a variety of paintings and statues from the early 17th century:






Here’s a statue of Venus:




And here is a bust of Cicero:



From there on, we have some nice 18th century landscapes. I got bored of taking pictures of them with the borders, so I purposely just took a picture of the paintings themselves. It looks better this way anyway, in my opinion:








From there on, I entered the realm of oh-so-fancy-stuff the aristocrats of the 18th century enjoyed. This stuff is really putting on the ritz, that’s for sure:



I apologize for the strange quality in this next photo, I have no idea what happened here:



Here’s the little lady on the clock itself:



Here’s the main hall that houses it all:



Fruitiest. Clock. Ever.



And here’s what a room back then looked like. If you’re into everything being gold-bordered, this is the life for you:



Here’s a bust of Winter, imagined as an old man. Apparently, even Old Man Winter can’t stand the cold, he’s wearing a cloak, for crying out loud!



Apparently the French were never outdone when it came to silverware. Too bad that doesn’t count for much militarily, sadly:



From there on, I exited the building, and took a pic of the side of the main plaza…



… where a nice lady got a pic of me near the main fountain!



Here’s another image of the main plaza, but from the other side of it:



After that, I got in a little statue expedition, and took some more pictures. Those of you familiar with Greek/Roman mythology should easily recognize these figures:













Wait a minute….. that’s not a Greek god…. Ah well, he was in the same room with them, so I snapped a picture of a fancy French crucifix!

This is the most important picture that I took after I left the room, however, and was back in the great outdoors in the plaza:



Yes, that would be my lunch. Can’t take pics well on an empty stomach. A tad expensive, at $10, but I’ll be darned if that wasn’t hands down the best tuna sandwich I’d ever had.

Anyway, let us move on, to Dutch and English artists around the 18th Century!

Here is a bust of a random old person (I’m terrible with names, alas):



This next picture is one of my all-time favourites, since it reminds me of a good friend of mine every single time I look at it :



This next picture was absolutely enormous. It doesn’t look like it in the picture, but this one painting easily took up the entire wall:



… and we all know that Greek gods are all perverts of the worst kind. Here’s “A Young Woman Fending Off Eros,” bad, Cupid, bad! Assaulting ladies is bad!



My second favourite picture is this one:



Again, it just reminds me of that particular friend of mine, and to me, that’s never a bad thing.

There were some impressionistic works in an adjacent room as well:




Here is an Italian landscape:



And some other miscellaneous artwork:





This last one is of Mars and Venus together:



A nice hallway…



… and then to the flower gardens!

It’s incredibly beautiful, in my opinion:







I also decided to take some pictures of the flowers that were planted around there:






… and that was my visit to the Getty Center. Today was my fourth time there, but it’s such an awesome art center, I go at least once a year.

Everyone should go, it’s a great place.

Wow man, those are some great pics of the artwork. As you know I also live in LA and brought my girlfriend there not too long ago, she had never been.

We didn't want to wait for the tram so we walked up, so there was a bit of exercise involved.

But you really capture the essence of the place.

Did you check out the exhibition on those illustrated prayer books? I don't recall the names and dates and it may have moved by now, but the level of detail on such a small image, all hand painted and the gold leaf was just incredible.

^^You sick Bastard

Anyway that art work looks beutiful, wish I was there

Ten dollars for a tuna sandwich?

I know, I know, it was really expensive, but doggone it, it's really good!

Oh yes, I was able to see the prayer books and the Bibles. I couldn't take pictures of it, however, they wouldn't let me, alas.

Doggone it?

I’ll be darned?

What kind of camera do you use?

Ill be darned if it aint the darndest camera out there doggone it.

I only care about the tuna sandwich. Tell me more about the sandwich.

Hands down, I like tuna sandwiches.

If there was a toss-up between saving my mother from falling off a cliff and saving a tuna sandwich, it would most definitely be the sandwich.

Have you considered writing something more focused on the sandwich?

Guess what? I got a fever! And the only prescription.. is more tuna sandwich!

Holy , $10 for a sandwich? Man you got robbed. I mean you can get a subway here for £1.99. Which is about $10.

Sterling > Dollar

Originally Posted by ♥Ŝåƒϊ♥ ٭τЋєąŧї

What kind of camera do you use?

It's a Kodak C340. Really old, about 4-5 years old now. I just take really good care of it, and I know all of its little quirks, so I'm still able to take really nice hi-res pictures with the thing.

I want to get a new camera, but I've no money at the moment.

Well, that's a lie. I actually have a good sum of money, I'm just saving up for something better.

Originally Posted by Dayman

I only care about the tuna sandwich. Tell me more about the sandwich.

Originally Posted by Desperado †

Hands down, I like tuna sandwiches.

Originally Posted by The Sundance Kid

If there was a toss-up between saving my mother from falling off a cliff and saving a tuna sandwich, it would most definitely be the sandwich.

Have you considered writing something more focused on the sandwich?

Originally Posted by Dayman

Guess what? I got a fever! And the only prescription.. is more tuna sandwich!

Originally Posted by ЯoMe ♠ kb8

Holy , $10 for a sandwich? Man you got robbed. I mean you can get a subway here for £1.99. Which is about $10.

Sterling > Dollar

I'm glad you all like the tuna sandwich. I didn't know it would garner such a great reaction...

... but I secretly hoped it would.

I'm normally much into that whole organic thing, since most of the time it tastes exactly the same, and just costs more, but since all they had there WAS organic food, and I was pretty darn hungry at that moment, I decided to go and buy it.

By the way, it's not $10 for the sandwich alone, it was that for that and the drink. Either way, a complete rip-off still in my opinion.

But the sandwich! Oh man, the sandwich! It tasted so awesome! Just sitting there in the Getty, looking at art all around you, laying lazily in the sun in your chair, sipping apple juice and eating your tuna sandwich....


.... life was good, man.

Dude, at my local newsagents I can get a sandwich the size of half my arm for £1.50 + a free coke.

Sorry to distract from the point of the topic, so I'll say. Nudity is cool.

What kind of bread, doggone it?

I'm actually more partial to a nice ham sandwich, but tuna intrigues me. I can buy a pack of ham and a loaf of bread all for 2-3 quid and make loads of sandwiches.

Suggest that to this art gallery, or whatever this thread's about.

Where am I?

Ham is haram.

What type of bread is that by the way?


I'll be darned if I don't pick some up when I go grocery shopping later.

You try your darndest, gosh darn it.