The Getty Center Museum Term Paper by hicaliber

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.