by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Nov 11, 2022 | art classes Italy France, art retreat, Art workshops, Gastronomy, Painting | plein air, painting workshops Italy France
Denise Tipka in front of her works during the last crit. Another participant from Minnesota. Denise Tipka was the “sponge” of this Fall Studio Italia painting workshop. She listened, tried everything; she was open-minded and she let go… and her paintings took flight....
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Aug 19, 2022 | art classes Italy France, art retreat, Art workshops, Food | Cooking, General, Painting | plein air, painting workshops Italy France, Philosophy
If there was a little bundle of energy in our Atelier Provence group, Hyacinth (from Dayton, Ohio) was certainly. Kind, talented, persistent, with a yearning to learn, she even spent a whole night painting… below, is a “quick” appreciation of her painting workshop in...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 26, 2022 | Art | Religion | Theory, art retreat, Ideas, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting | plein air, Philosophy
The search for wisdom, which is philosophy, is born from metaphysics The book is in French, but I hope that its main ideas, which I will humbly try to report in English in this summary, will provide some food for thought for us all. It is true that the word...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jan 13, 2022 | Art | Religion | Theory, Art History, art retreat, Ideas, Inspiration |Thoughts
Contingency – Essence – Knowledge I am currently in Colombia on a beach, far away from the crowds because of the pandemic. And every year that I am on that beach, Picasso’s painting Les pauvres au bord de la mer (title in French) comes to my mind. From...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Dec 11, 2021 | art classes Italy France, Art History, art retreat, Painting, Painting | plein air
We had to reblog the story of Shirleyann Brough, an artist of Studio Italia. Undoubtedly, Refus Global or Total Refusal is one of the most important texts written in Canada. This anti-establishment and anti-religious manifesto, written by Paul-Émile Borduas and...
