The Getty Museum is one of the largest art museums in the world, located in Los Angeles, in the new building of the Getty Center, erected in 1997. The museum was founded by the richest man in the world at that time - oil tycoon J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), who spared no expense to purchase works of art at the largest auctions in the world. He began to exhibit his collections for display since 1954, which is considered the year the museum was founded.
The modern exposition presents the art of Europe and North America from the Middle Ages to the present day: paintings, drawings, sculptures, arts and crafts, photographs, manuscripts. The museum is proud of its rich collections of paintings by Flemish masters, works of the Impressionists, masterpieces of Italian painters and sculptors of the Renaissance.
The Getty art collection is so extensive that in all the pavilions of the museum, and there are 4 of them, only a part of it is exhibited. However, people come here not only for the sake of art, but also because of the unusual architecture of Richard Meier, who built the museum, which is dominated by horizontal lines and square shapes. To create optimal conditions for viewing paintings in natural light, some of the walls and ceilings of the galleries are made of glass. Light filters regulate the intensity of lighting, and special blinds direct the light flux to the canvases as needed.
The Getty Museum participates in Google Goggles, a visual search program. By uploading an image of a painting to the Internet, you will receive information about it and a commentary from an art critic.