The frame (thoughts on the Getty Center)

It was so clear from the Getty Center last night that you could see downtown Los Angeles and the sea quite clearly. In fact the view was rivetting.

I wonder even if the Center expresses a Southern Californian attitude to European art. It's meant to be a shrine to it of course, and there are great pictures like Monet's Rouen Cathedral and Van Gogh's Irises. I particularly liked the Caspar David Friedrich

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=1046

But we kept going outside to look at the building and the view. Is it possible that in the act of paying homage to European art, the shrine outshines it? At the least it dramatises the difference between an indoor and outdoor culture.