Would you like to revitalize and enrich your life?
For the next several weeks, we will be posting on a daily basis another installment of Through an Artist’s Eyes: Learning to Live Creatively offering you a pathway to art and the vision of the artist. Enabling you to develop your own inner creativity and apply it to the personal cycle of everyday living!
(And if you are familiar with our book, you might find new meaning by rereading it again!)
Special Bonus: Symbols of the Journey to Art (see below at the article’s end).
II. THE JOURNEY TO ART
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What To Take On Your Journey, Part 1
We all have taken a trip, ranging from short ones down to the local store, or longer ones from one country to the other or even farther from one continent to another. The longer ones, of course, require much greater preparation including packing. What shall we take? What clothes and toiletries will be most appropriate? How much money will be necessary? We wouldn’t want to be stranded someplace far from what we considered home.
Yet compared to our ancestors, who experienced days, months, and sometimes years of moving toward their final destinations, our trips are relatively short and safe. Even if we are venturing out for what we consider an adventure, to some new and exotic locale, whether for business or pleasure, we are usually secure that we will return as the same person, changed perhaps by different sights and experiences but not altered dramatically.
But the journey to art requires a transformation that focuses on you. Not on externals, like your physical appearance, how much you earn, the state of your health, or even your chronological age, whether it is sixteen, sixty, or eighty five. It is the inner self—the person that only you truly know—who must transform. Not the image that is projected to your family, your friends, your co-workers or people in general—the facade developed possibly from your first moments of consciousness.
So preparation will be solely up to you—no interferences or judgments from anyone else. It will be your ideas, emotions, memories, aspirations, and beliefs that you will be bringing. Don’t be concerned, though, about organizing or pinpointing, computerizing or tallying—just be yourself—it will be easier than you might expect.
COMING NEXT: ART WALKS WITH MONET, O’KEEFFE, AND OTHER ARTISTS
If you missed any of the installments, Through an Artist’s Eyes: Learning to Live Creatively begins on September 14, 2026!
Bonus: Symbols of the Journey to Art
Odilon Redon:
https://www.artchive.com/artwork/red-boat-with-blue-sail-odilon-redon-1906-07/
Caspar David Friedrich:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog
Another Symbol by Caspar David Friedrich;
Bonus: Take a Journey to see the great works of art!
Johannes Vermeer, Woman with a Red Hat, c. 1669, oil on panel, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
In the public domain, courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The National Gallery of Art does not endorse or approve use of the above image or any of the material on this website. Nor has the National Gallery of Art participated in any projects utilizing the said image.
Copyright 2010: Joan Hart, Museum One, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented including photocopying, recording and information storage and retrieval without permission from the publisher.
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