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Living Through the ArtsWhat is beautiful III – Ugliness permits us…
Reflecting, reflecting during our art workshop in Italy. To follow-up on my last posts, during the last few weeks, I hired four astounding professors from various universities to work on the following question: “What is beautiful”? Their answers will be available...
An art workshop or an art retreat?
Getting ready for our painting workshop in Italy I am now at the Frankfurt airport and have a few minutes to write this post. In a few days, we will be a group of 10 artists from both hemispheres, painting the landscape in the middle of Tuscany. I thought that for...
What is beautiful II – Plato and Hippias
My wife Mónica is beautiful ! As my last post reads, I recently hired four astounding professors from various universities to work on the following question: “What is beautiful”? Their answers will be soon available in the form of short presentations on Vimeo. The...
What is beautiful I – The re-evaluation of our terrestrial environment
Our upcoming painting workshops in Tuscany and Provence June & July 2014 During the last few weeks, I hired four astounding professors from various universities to work on the following question: “What is beautiful”? Their answers will be available shortly in the...
Art and Science II
Matthias Grünewald the cosmologist. My challenging reading of Max Tegmark’s Our Mathematical Universe (Knoph, New York, 2014) made me go to the library to get a few books on our universe so I can read them peacefully in my bed. One of them was the wonderful collection...
Art and Science I
Art, a reflection of the past or the future? As art historians or artists, we need to be aware of knowledge developing at an accelerating pace. We need to know about the current state of science even if we are not scientists; just as we keep ourselves informed about...
Risotto with eggplants and black olive tapenade – A Studio Provence recipe
Today, a delicious break from art history and painting. Risotto with eggplants and black olive tapenade is a recipe created by walkthearts and offered during our art workshops in Provence. We hope that participants of our upcoming Atelier Provence 2014 (July 5-15)...
Art and Existentialism
Why attending one of our painting workshops in Italy or France? During our painting workshops in Tuscany and Provence, we aim to provoke the creative act by challenging our participants to see and think in new ways. If not, why traveling so far and investing in a...
Risk-taker or not, everyone is welcome to our painting workshops in Italy
You the Mannerist during our art workshop in Tuscany! Attending one of our painting workshops in Tuscany or Provence, is being a member of a wild bunch! We are not going to rob the Banca de Toscana, like the aging group of outlaws of the notorious 1969 movie The Wild...
Travelling with meaning; our painting workshops
Our painting workshops, great art summer camp? We have read that more and more travellers from the developed world are looking for meaningful travels. Increasingly, we are aiming for journeys that allow us to learn something new, to deepen our culture, to enhance our...
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