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Perspectives from The Artist's Road
At Joinville 1896 Robert Henri
“I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.”
- Robert Henri
We all seem to come to those moments in life when we aren’t quite sure if it matters that we are artists, or if our art contributes anything at all to the world. It does! Whether we are observing and recording a fleeting moment of beauty, or making an expression purely of our own spirit, the world needs the barometer of our sensitivity to tell the story of our moments here.
At times like these, it is nice to remember Robert Genn writing about “the sisterhood and brotherhood of artists”. Although art can be a solitary endeavor, we are never truly alone. We are following in the footsteps of artists whose work inspired and illuminated the world. We, in turn, are providing glimpses of nature and our passage through this moment in history that are often uns…