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.”

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.”