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 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.) | Sep 3, 2021 | art classes Italy France, Art History, art retreat, Art workshops, Food | Cooking, Gastronomy, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Mónica Márquez presenting Sevy Euqcoral from her series The Lives of Others Opening/vernissage Thursday September 16, 2021 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Ottawa Art Gallery d’Art d’Ottawa Mónica Márquez, Colombian-Canadian digital artist, photographer, and...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Apr 30, 2020 | art classes Italy France, Art History, General, Inspiration |Thoughts
We are not living a crisis but a change of time “Urinal, you are” fountain “, and on this fountain, I will build my art! “(Christine Sourgins, Mirages of Contemporary Art, yet to be translated in English) Well, I have read Christine...
