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The J. Paul Getty Museum Shows and rotating displays of art from the permanent collection, as well as changing exhibitions, are on view throughout the Museum’s five pavilions. START YOUR VISIT Pick up a copy of Today at the Getty Center at the Lower Tram Station or at the Information Desk. A 10-minute film
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Visit the Getty Center in Brentwood and enjoy displays of European art up to 1900 and special exhibitions set amid modern architecture and gardens.
- Van Gogh, Irises
- Edouard Manet, Spring
- Claude Monet Works
- Cezanne, Still Life with Apples
- J.M.W. Turner, Modern Rome
- Goya, Bullfight
- Jacques-Louis David, The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharist
- Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Fountain of Love
- Andrea Mantegna, The Adoration of The Magi
- Gentle de Fabriano, The Coronation of The Virgin
The absolute star of the Getty Center is Vincent Van Gogh’s Irises.In fact, it’s so sought after that the museum employees may point you right to the West pavilion where it’s housed. Van Goghwas a Dutch Post-Impressionism artist now considered one of the greatest and most influential painters in art history. Van Gogh’s work is notable for its swirl...
Manet is known as the “Father of Impressionism,” though he really preceded and overlapped with the movement. Manet had a huge impact on the development of modernism. He led a bohemian life and scandalized the official Salon with his utter disregard for academic conventions and his strikingly modern images of urban life. This late Manet portrait dep...
The Getty has a trio of significant paintings by the ever-popular Impressionist artist Claude Monet. Sunrise is a painting that kicked off the Impressionism movement. Along with its companion piece Impression Sunrise at Paris’ Musee Marmottan Monet, it exemplifies Monet’s “plein air” (outdoor) approach to painting and his signature informal and spo...
Cezanne was a hugely influential painter of the late 19th century. Monet called Cezanne “the greatest of us all.” For Picasso, he was the father of modern art. Cezanne threw away the long prevailing convention of single point perspective. He used multiple perspectives in a single canvas, portraying objects as sets of abstract shapes. Still lifes we...
Turner is Britain’s most famous and important Romantic era artist. In the mid 19th century, Turner shocked his colleagues with his loose brush strokes and fiery palette, presaging the later Impressionist movement. In this Getty painting, Turner captures the Eternal City of Rome. The city’s ancient ruins are seen through a shimmering veil of paint a...
In the 19th century, Goya was the most famous painter in Spain, with no rival during his lifetime. He was the official court painter for Charles IV and Ferdinand VII, specializing in portraits and religious paintings. Goya was known for capturing not only his subjects’ likenesses, but their personal expressiveness and individuality. Bullfights were...
French artist Jacques-Louis David was a master of the grand Neo-Classical style of painting. It was a style and subject matter derived from antiquity. His painting are characterized by firm linear contours, pure colors, polished forms, and frieze-like compositions. This painting is the very image of ideal love. It was inspired by characters from Ho...
Fragonard was an 18th century French painter whose reputation rests on his light-hearted Rococo love scenes. He was renowned for his use of light, color and expressive brushstrokes. Fragonard’s most famous painting is the iconic Swing in London’s Wallace Collection. Like that one, this Getty Center painting, Fountain of Love, is set in a verdant an...
Italian artist Andrea Mantegnabridged the Early and High Renaissance periods of art history. He was a pioneer of spatial illusionism. Mantegna used visual distortions to create uncanny effects of 2D and 3D images on flat surfaces. His works reflect a perfectionist love of detail. This painting is a close up composition of half length figures set ag...
This beautiful painting is an early Renaissance work by Italian artist Gentile da Fabriano. In a formal ceremony, Christ crowns his mother, the Virgin Mary. The painting was once a processional standard.Typical of Fabriano’s worth painting has richly saturated colors ad decorative gold leaf. The other side of our panel once bore another painting, a...
The Getty Center in Los Angeles is an astounding place to spend a day marveling at world-class art and relaxing in beautifully manicured gardens. Take the tram up to this lavish postmodern complex, which houses a sprawling museum featuring masterpieces by the likes of Van Gogh, Monet, and Cezanne.
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The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust. The $1.3 billion center opened to the public on December 16, 1997, and is well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles.
The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust. The $1.3 billion center opened to the public on December 16, 1997, and is well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles. Map.
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Jun 26, 2019 · The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection is divided between the Getty Villa, in the Museum's original location in Pacific Palisades above Malibu, and the newer Getty Center on a hilltop in Brentwood just off the 405 freeway. While Greek and Roman antiquities are the focus of the collection at the Getty Villa, the Getty Center houses the Getty's ...
