Kenneth Hartvigsen has thought a lot about the power art possesses. He is a believer that it has the ability to help us unite,&nbsp;understand one another, and feel a greater connection to the Creator. On this week&rsquo;s episode, Kenneth, an art curator at Brigham Young University, takes us inside his thought process surrounding art so we can&nbsp;&ldquo;experience&rdquo; one of Carl Bloch&rsquo;s most famous paintings, &ldquo;Christ Healing the Sick at the Pool of Bethesda.&rdquo;1:56- &ldquo;Something To Feel&rdquo;
5:06- The Great Unifier&nbsp;
8:11- An Embodied Experience
14:43- The Church&rsquo;s Commitment To Art
18:29- Seeking To Understand
26:56- Back To Bethesda&nbsp;
37:07- Art and Empathy
42:39- Sacred Even When Not Religious
46:29- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?&nbsp;&ldquo;Looking at art of any subject can be sacred in the sense that what I am looking at is somebody else&rsquo;s deep desire to better understand what they&rsquo;re doing here and to respond to things they&rsquo;ve experienced&mdash;things that have been exciting for them, things that have been sad for them, things that they&rsquo;re confused about or things they deeply believe but in any of those cases I feel like it&rsquo;s an opportunity to sort of look into the eyes of a fellow traveler here in this complicated part of our existence and to try to see their spiritual progress."Learn More about Christ Healing the Sick at the Pool of Bethesda&rdquo; and "Monumental Matters and other BYU exhibits-&nbsp;<a href="https://moa.byu.edu/exhibitions-2/current-exhibitions/" aria-label="Link https://moa.byu.edu/exhibitions-2/current-exhibitions/">https://moa.byu.edu/exhibitions-2/current-exhibitions/</a>
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Kenneth Hartvigsen: Experiencing Art in an Intimate Way

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