The Getty Center Museum

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The paper describes how the artistic goal of the J. Paul Getty Museum, located at the Getty Center in the city of Los Angeles, is to make its collection meaningful and attractive to a broad audience by presenting and interpreting the collection through educational programs, special exhibitions, publications, conservation and research. The writer proposes that this has been accomplished with the museum's outstanding collection of art masterpieces, ranging from European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs. The paper examines specific works of Van Gogh, Renoir and Raphael.

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"As one of the great masters of Post-Impressionism, Vincent Van Gogh's paintings contain many visual elements and principles of design, especially through his use of color. His insistence on the expressive values of color led him to develop a corresponding expressiveness via his application of the paint to the canvas. The thickness, shape and direction of his brushstrokes created a tactile counterpoint to his intense color schemes, usually by loading his brushes with paint and then vigorously applying it back and forth or at right angles which gives a textile-like effect; he also often applied paint directly from the tube which gives his paintings an almost three-dimensional feel to them."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection." Internet. Accessed March 24, 2006. http://www.getty.edu/art/#.

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