A Piece Of the Getty
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BlueMustangs
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Monday, November 16, 2009
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California, United States
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my mission is to travel the US and the World visiting any art museum along the way. if you happen to pass one please take a picture with me and you and the museum. thanks have fun.
I am not a collectible, I am meant to travel the world from cache to cache! Please don't keep me for long and keep me moving!
it is a block of Travertine. Travertine The stone—1.2 million square feet of it—is one of the most remarkable elements of the complex. This beige-colored, cleft-cut, textured, fossilized travertine catches the bright Southern California light, reflecting sharply during morning hours, and emitting a honeyed warmth in the afternoon. Meier chose stone for this project because it is often associated with public architecture and expresses qualities the Getty Center celebrates: permanence, solidity, simplicity, warmth, and craftsmanship. The 16,000 tons of travertine are from Bagni di Tivoli, Italy, 15 miles east of Rome. Many of the stones revealed fossilized leaves, feathers, and branches when they were split along their natural grain. Meier and his staff worked for a year with the quarries to invent a process using a guillotine to produce the unique finish.
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