Is illness an obstacle, or an opportunity, for artistic creativity? How do artists with visual loss deal with their illness? How do visual changes affect an artist’s work? In this conversation at the Woodbury Public Library, Dr. Vincent de Luise will explore the visual impairments of several of the greatest artists in the western Canon – Euphronios, Rembrandt, Titian, Goya, Daumier, Degas, Cassatt, Monet, Georgia O’Keefe, Francis Bacon and Chuck Close. The talk will take a “Slow Look” at their works to see how they overcame their visual changes to create masterpieces.

Vincent de Luise MD is an assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology at Yale University School of Medicine and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Medical Humanities at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. Vincent is a clarinetist and is president of the Woodbury-based Connecticut Summer Opera Foundation. He also serves as the cultural ambassador and a program annotator of the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra.

Woodbury Public Library
269 Main Street South
Woodbury, CT 06798
https://woodburylibraryct.libcal.com/event/14995632