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Six Steps to More Fulfilling Experiences with Visual Arts 

Joseph Kellard April 2, 2024

Cultivating greater enjoyment of the visual arts can profoundly change your life.

Art in general–from painting, sculpture and drawing to literature, music and movies–packs that degree of life-enhancing power. But while some people at museums can experience speechless awe when encountering a beautiful painting or sculpture, others can muster only enough enthusiasm to say: “There were some pretty pictures and nice statues.” 

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Tags art appreciation, appreciate art, art love, art lovers, love art, six steps, visual arts, art, painting, paintings, sculpture, sculptures, statue, drawing, drawings, art essay, art writer, art photographer, Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Monet, Modigliani, Ernst Gombrich, John Singer Sargent, Kenneth Clarke, Kenneth Clark, Walter Isaacson, Vitruvian Man, Madam X, Luc Travers, Dianne Durante, Sandra Shaw, Lee Sandstead
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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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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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