Many years of visits are represented here and many visits are not. I haven’t kept to a plan…
Just another plaza in paradise.
I noticed in August 2006 that this plaza is getting redesigned into a sculpture garden and these plants are gone! We’ll have to check back to see how it turns out. Always changing, never twice the same.
In mid 2007 the plants were indeed gone and the sculpture in. It’s all black marble against the blazingly bright outside, and I haven’t caught a decent shot yet.
Here’s one, a picture of the center piece in the ‘new’ sculpture garden. I really liked it with the plants but, as is the way of things, I like it now too.
Delusions of Grandeur (Bronze) 1967; Rene Magritte (Belgian) 1898-1967
Here’s a website with a nice description of The Evolution of Styles of Fountains.
Wow. I just got one snap off before the guard told me this was one of the on-loan pictures (on loan from Forest Lawn(!)) and no photos allowed. Isn’t it magnificent.
A guide is discussing this picture and the crowd is entirely engrossed in her words, listening carefully, jockeying for position to see better, and asking thoughtful engaged questions.
They’ll probably leave having had a personal experience with a picture and isn’t that basically the whole point.
I took this photo and the next two when on a visit with my nine month old grandbaby and her nine month old friend (yes and their moms came too!)
So my mind was taken up with all-babies-all-the-time.
Centuries apart. Someday someday I WILL go to the museum with this story in mind and get info on the work – dates, artist etc..
It’s amazing wonderful engrossing touching just to be there and I think it’s even more of all that when you know what you’re looking at!
Oh goodie, she’s back! It’s our Walking Flower from Fernand Leger, happy in a new space by the research buildings.
…and a real charmer, The Jousters, by Alexander Calder, the same artist who did the Eagle I’m so fond of in Seattle and the iconic fountain mobile at LACMA.
Calder’s The Jousters that I have to see every visit because they make me smile.
Hopping the tram back down to real life starting in the parking garage reminiscent to so very many, of the Nine Circles of Hell. But worth it.
Sunset pictures following, another view of the opening sculpture.
The buildings and grounds lit by handsome projections during the holiday season.
