by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Nov 18, 2014 | Art History, Painting
Madame Cézanne at the Met show during New York Art Trip 2015 (March 12-15) In 1869, Cézanne started to live with Hortense Fiquet, a bookbinder 11 years younger than him, whom he had met as a model in Paris when he was studying painting. For eight years, Cézanne kept...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Nov 11, 2014 | Painting | plein air
How to paint an Italian landscape in Tuscany. In our last post, we wrote that if you search in YouTube « How to paint an Italian landscape », you will get about 5470 results. In the vicinity of painting “B” (below), all paintings look alike. It is a painting that...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Aug 25, 2014 | Painting | plein air
What recent participants of Walk the Arts painting worshops in Tuscany and Provence say Testimonials from participants of our last two last painting workshops in Italy and France prove our philosophy of offering above all the experience of art, one close to Arthur...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 12, 2014 | Inspiration |Thoughts
Now we are really reflecting during our art workshop in Provence To follow-up on my last post, during the last weeks I hired four astounding professors from various universities to work on the following question: “What is beautiful”? Their answers will be available...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 4, 2014 | Art History, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Contemporary art during painting workshop in Italy Just finished another Studio Italia. Undoubtedly, one of the highlights of our last painting workshop in Tuscany (near Montepulciano) was the making of an installation around the famous Chianina cow breed. For the...