7 Tips for Bringing the Pleasure of Art into Everyday Life
March 08, 2013
An appreciation for art is one of the transcendent values of life,
but like many transcendent values, it can sometimes be hard to wedge into your
ordinary day.Here are some tips for getting some visual art into your daily routine, without spending a lot of time, energy, or money.
1. Check out art books from the library. Art books are expensive, but a library allows you to enjoy as many as you want, for free.
2. Here’s a brilliant suggestion from a reader: When she’s at a museum, she buys postcards of her favorite artworks. She keeps a big stack of these masterpiece postcards in her car's sun visor. When she’s stuck in traffic, she pulls them out and looks at them.
3. Enjoy picture books. We tend to look at picture books only when we’re around young children, but they can be such a source of joy. I wrote a series of posts for the New York Times Motherlode blog about my love of picture books.
4. Don’t spend hours in a museum. My family has become members of several museums, so we can visit as often as we like, for as long as we like, without having to pay extra. I find that I like visiting museums much more when I go often, and for a short time.
5. Treat a a store like an art gallery. Visit some exquisite store, or even a department store or hardware store, without the expectation of purchase–just to enjoy the items there. Added bonus: in a store, you can touch and handle objects. A few months ago, I spent a good five minutes running my hands over a fake-fur throw during a trip to Bloomingdale’s. Extremely satisfying.
6. Make something. There’s a great pleasure in making something by hand.
7. Use sites like Pinterest or Instagram. One way to claim a beautiful object is to take a photo of it. Taking photos of beautiful sights, or “pinning” them, is a very satisfying way to engage with the world, and then you can look back with great pleasure on all your images. Your own gallery. (You can follow me on Pinterest and Instagram.)
What other strategies do you use to bring the pleasure of visual art into your everyday life?
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