Los Angeles, 27June, 98

I came to Lax for a day and just had a day to visit the new Getty Center, situated on the hills looking on Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, it is a huge museum built of a white stone by the architect Richard Meier who had built many contemporary museums all over the world. It is so big, almost monumental every thing arranged perfectly like Disney Land, you almost fill its made out of plastic (this is Los Angeles the plastic capital of America).

There are some interesting exhibitions: "Prayer Book for a Queen", The hours of Jeanne D'Evreux Paris 1324-1328.

The manuscript was given by Charles IV of France to his cousin and queen, Jeanne d'Evreux, it is the work of the celebrated artist Jean Pucelle. Among the prayers beautiful miniature paintings of bishops, beggars, street dancers, maidens, musicians the peopled streets of medieval Paris, as well as apes, rabbits, dogs and creatures of sheer fantasy.

Another exhibition: "The Art of Daaguerrotype":



Portrait of a father and a smiling child, about 1855

This type of photos was invented by Louis-Mande Daguerre (1787-1851), it created sensation all over the world, it was like a magic, this invention led to the invention of photography and changed the face of the whole visual arts.