Positive Psychology: Robert Henri's Sense of Place

Monday, September 23, 2019

Robert Henri's Sense of Place - Cornell Fine Arts Museum

Robert Henri's Sense of Place - Cornell Fine Arts Museum

Cornell Fine Arts Museum (CFAM )

Curator, Amy Galpin presents:

Robert Henri's Sense of Place

March 14, 2014

Robert Henri possessed a profound connection to place.

Whether it was Ireland, Spain, New Mexico, California, or Maine, Henri was attracted to disparate places and the various people he encountered.

This talk places his painting Mountain Ash, Dark Woods, 1911, located in the permanent collection of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, in context with other works by the artist and his contemporaries.

Find out more at:

http://www.rollins.edu/cfam/

Link: https://youtu.be/ekBBC17qF1E

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."