Guest Author - Sandy Hemphill
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A sight of beauty brings joy to the heart of anyone seeing it. This glimpse of beauty may be a perfect rose, the forest at dawn, or the smile of a baby. It might also be a work of art.
Since the old adage is true, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, something I consider beautiful you may consider strange, ridiculous, blah, or even ugly. That doesn’t matter. There’s really enough beauty going around that we can all benefit.
The drive to achieve deliberate beauty, as every artist does in his or her own way, makes the story behind the work as interesting to me as the art work itself. There are many pieces of art I didn’t fully appreciate until I learned the back story - who did it, why, for whom, and why this particular representation of that mission.
It’s these stories that I want to explore and share with you during my stint as Art History Editor here at BellaOnline.com. I hope you’ll enjoy these back stories as much as I do but please feel free to contact me with special requests, questions, and suggestions. Your feedback is the best way I know of to make this website one you’ll be returning to again and again. Just click on the yellow ‘contact’ icon on the far right-hand side of this page. I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
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Sandy Hemphill
Art History Editor
Bella Online
