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Kenneth Hartvigsen has thought a lot about the power art possesses. He is a believer that it has the ability to help us unite,\xa0understand one another, and feel a greater connection to the Creator. On this week\u2019s episode, Kenneth, an art curator at Brigham Young University, takes us inside his thought process surrounding art so we can\xa0\u201cexperience\u201d one of Carl Bloch\u2019s most famous paintings, \u201cChrist Healing the Sick at the Pool of Bethesda.\u201d

1:56- \u201cSomething To Feel\u201d

5:06- The Great Unifier\xa0

8:11- An Embodied Experience

14:43- The Church\u2019s Commitment To Art

18:29- Seeking To Understand

26:56- Back To Bethesda\xa0

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?\xa0
\u201cLooking at art of any subject can be sacred in the sense that what I am looking at is somebody else\u2019s deep desire to better understand what they\u2019re doing here and to respond to things they\u2019ve experienced\u2014things that have been exciting for them, things that have been sad for them, things that they\u2019re confused about or things they deeply believe but in any of those cases I feel like it\u2019s 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\u201d and "Monumental Matters and other BYU exhibits-\xa0https://moa.byu.edu/exhibitions-2/current-exhibitions/

Bethesda-https://moa.byu.edu/past-exhibitions-archive/past-exhibitions-2001/carl-bloch-chirst-healing-the-sick-at-bethesda/

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