by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 9, 2013 | Art History, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Our painting workshops in Tuscany Kangaroos, Beavers and Gorgonzola is certainly among icscis/Walk the Arts’ best publications. It is a small catalogue of an art exhibition that took place in Ottawa in 2011 featuring works by 42 former participants of Studio...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Mar 28, 2013 | Art History, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Studio Colombia 2013: Understanding Perspective held last February was a great success! We spent 10 memorable days in Pradomar, Cartagena and Santa Marta with a great group of artists and art lovers from Ottawa and Montreal. We are planning Studio Colombia again...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Mar 12, 2013 | Art History, General, Inspiration |Thoughts
A post in the memory of Aaron Schwartz In the 15th and 16th centuries, the great Florentine de Medici family ruled “successfully” by making sure that knowledge remained in the hands of a few chosen ones, hence making the Republic of Florence, at that time, a very...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Mar 2, 2013 | Art History
Art Trip New York : The true origins of abstraction MoMa’s exhibit in New York, Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925; how a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art, is extraordinary. As per the Museum’s website, the show traces the “development of abstraction as it moved through a...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Feb 12, 2013 | Art History, General, Inspiration |Thoughts
The Horizon Line :God’s invention or Giotto’s The very first line which lands on a canvas for a landscape painting is undoubtedly the horizon line, the line demarcating the earth/ocean from the sky. Then, the artist determines the time of the day, puts a few trees...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Feb 5, 2013 | Art History, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Studio Colombia: Understanding Perspective In a few days, Studio Colombia: Understanding Perspective. Let’s begin with a quote from the introduction of Panofsky’s formidable essay Perspective as Symbolic Form: “Does this mean that the experience of space [perspective...
