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Living Through the ArtsFollowing Alberti’s path in 2014
Becoming better artists according to Alberti 2014, a new year arrives with our usual list of personal and professional goals to be accomplished. On our side, we are getting ready for our annual art trip to New York City and our art workshops in Tuscany, and in...
Understanding when you paint II
A moose leaving tracks, leaving contexts Art, context and moose They say "One picture is worth a thousand words". However, you only need a few words to radically change the way an image will be perceived and interpreted by a spectator, the public and even a… moose...
Understanding what you paint !
Denotation and connotation As an artist, you have always to remember that a work of art connotes and denotes. Denotation refers to the literal or explicit sense of a word. It is the first definition provided by a dictionary. Connotation refers to the various...
The Power of Art
The transformative power of art... At the end of September, a fantastic national forum entitled “Power of the Arts: Advancing Social Change” took place in Ottawa, Canada. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend because during those dates I was in Italy leading one of...
Utopia for 10 days; our painting workshop in Tuscany
Utopian Art If a utopian society is the representation of a free, peaceful, fair and happy world for everyone, what would be utopian art? Some might find the question redundant as art is in itself is a utopia because it allows to create new worlds apart from reality....
Upon everyone’s return from our painting workshop in Tuscany
The dialectical image In a few hours, our group will arrive for our fall session of our painting workshop Studio Italia. For the next ten days we will incessantly paint the beautiful landscapes of Tuscany. Then once everyone will be back to the United States, Canada...
Sharing knowledge during an art workshop
Knowledge and relationships Today in our digital age, the sharing and the relationship to knowledge prevail. The acquisition of knowledge is at hand, and for all. We only have to get informed and to learn from the Web. I no longer teach art history as before,...
What will be the art of tomorrow ?
Contingency Today in our digital world, in this time of migration, mashup, minorities, utopia, electronic surveillance, destroyed borders, global success, what will be the art of tomorrow? It is a question that many asked during our art workshops in Italy. In the...
Cooking during our art workshop in Italy
Osso bucco alla Borrani Gastronomic meals are an essential componant of our painting workshops in Tuscany. Creative cooking is art. This is why we enjoy so much experimenting with new ingredient combinations and arrive to our own original recipes. We enjoy very much...
From our painting workshop in Tuscany
What is artistic talent II? In my previous post, I wrote that intelligence and awareness are also components of artistic talent. This because creativity implies awareness of the actual societal context in which we live in order to intelligently build new visions, new...
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