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Four Seasons Exhibit Inspires Another ‘Love Triangle’

Joseph Kellard June 5, 2024

Watercolorist Frederick Brosen’s painting process involves a bicycle. He typically starts cycling at dawn in his native New York, searching for picture-worthy deserted streets. After finding one, he sketches the scene, takes photographs, and later revises his original draft.

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In Art Tags Frederick Brosen, Four Seasons, Museum of the City of New York, Central Park, Central Park New York, Burnett Memorial Fountain, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden, Belvedere Castle, Bethesda Fountain, Emma Stebbins, Glen Span Arch, Calvert Vaux, Frederick Law Olmsted, Conservatory Garden Central Park
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Connecting Spiritually with Rembrandt’s Portrait of a Young Man

Joseph Kellard December 14, 2023

This is a portrait by Rembrandt of a young man whose name and background are unknown.  Who is he? How might we tell by studying the portrait’s details and how Rembrandt presented them?

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In Art, Personal Tags Portrait of a Young Man, Rembrandt, Dutch art, Rembrandt portrait, portrait painting, Uffizi Gallery, Uffizi, Netherlands
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During a summer trip down South, I visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to view for the first time Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait Ginevra de’ Benci. (Photo: Brian Jones)

During a summer trip down South, I visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to view for the first time Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait Ginevra de’ Benci. (Photo: Brian Jones)

Meeting da Vinci’s Ginevra de’ Benci Eye to Eye

Joseph Kellard October 6, 2021

“Walk straight down the hall, turn right at the third room, and her eyes will meet yours,” an employee at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. told me when I asked her where I would find “the Leonardo da Vinci painting.”

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In Art, Personal, Travel Tags Ginevra de’ Benci, Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo, da Vinci, National Gallery of Art, National Gallery, Washington DC, painting, portrait, art, Andrea del Verrocchio, Luigi Niccolini, Bernardo Bembo, art photography
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Thoughts on da Vinci’s Book on Painting

Joseph Kellard July 15, 2021

I reached a milestone in my research for an essay I plan to write about Leonardo da Vinci. I finished reading his treatise on painting

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In Art, Books, Personal Tags Leonardo da Vinci, Da Vinci, Leonardo, Treatise on Painting, Book on Painting, Leonardo On Painting, Renaissance man, Renaissance, Renaissance artist, painting, reading, reading books, book reading
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I drew the picture on the left (Innsbruck, Austria) in a high school art class, after which I stopped drawing to focus on writing. Next to it is a picture of a park scene that I drew last summer, the first time I picked up a pencil to sketch anything since then.

I drew the picture on the left (Innsbruck, Austria) in a high school art class, after which I stopped drawing to focus on writing. Next to it is a picture of a park scene that I drew last summer, the first time I picked up a pencil to sketch anything since then.

Drawing on Past Passions for New Opportunities

Joseph Kellard May 10, 2021

Do you ever reflect on hobbies you once enjoyed but no longer practice?

Perhaps you passionately played a sport or musical instrument; pursued a craft such as pottery, sewing, or woodwork; engaged in intellectually challenging games; or enjoyed activities in the great outdoors.

Last summer, I started drawing for the first time in decades. Through this, I realized that reviving dormant hobbies can spark new creative endeavors and perspectives on life.

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In Personal, Art Tags drawing, drawings, hobbies, hobby, Innsbruck, Austria, park
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How Travel Can Foster a Personal Renaissance

Joseph Kellard October 10, 2020

I now know what people mean when they say that travel can improve your life considerably.

When I was a teen, my sister told me about an Italian artist and unique polymath who lived during the Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci. Intrigued, I began reading about this staggeringly versatile man and visionary inventor, whose copious notebooks reveal that he studied everything from architecture to geology to aeronautics. I recognized his world-famous masterpieces, the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, from pop-art parodies, and I vowed to one day visit his homeland.

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In Travel, Personal, Art Tags Italy, Leonardo Da Vinci, travel, art
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Reflections on Monument Man’s ‘Heritage of Beauty’

Joseph Kellard July 9, 2019

Recently I read Monument Man: The Life & Art of Daniel Chester French, the long-awaited first authoritative biography of my favorite sculptor, who a New York Times writer hailed, at his death in 1931, as a “distinctively American ‘apostle of beauty.’” While a review was published that closely reflects what I wanted to write about the book, I’m still eager to share some thoughts on why that writer’s description is so apt. 

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In Books, Art Tags Momument Man, Daniel Chester French, biography, American artist, American sculptor, book, books, Chesterwood, Howard Holzer, biographer, art, sculpture
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