by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 23, 2024 | art classes Italy France, art retreat, Inspiration |Thoughts, Online art classes, painting workshops Italy France, Philosophy
Creativity involves a pause This post is directed to all visual artists who are transitioning from imitating (mimesis) to fearlessly expressing their true selves (poeitesis) through their art. During our art workshops in Italy and France, this is a question we...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 10, 2023 | art classes Italy France, art retreat, Art workshops, Ideas, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting, Painting | plein air
Walk the Arts beats AI We knew at Walk the Arts that we had to prepare for the current upheaval of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on visual arts education. For the last quarter of a century, we have stuck to our niche and instead of offering demonstrations, we...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 12, 2023 | Art | Religion | Theory, art classes Italy France, Art History, art retreat, Ideas
NFTs are here to stay! “I think the reason […] I’ve chosen the career that I have is because artists are always the seers or the truth tellers. They show us the way forward”. Nora Burnett Abrams, The Story of NFTs, Artists, Technology, and Democracy....
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...
