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.) | Jul 6, 2023 | art classes Italy France, Art workshops, General, Ideas, Painting, Philosophy
The “Color” of Humanity Currently in Italy giving our twice-a-year Studio Italia painting workshop. Everyone is painting hard and… playing hard. I am always fascinated by the seriousness of each participant. However, the subject of this post is the color...
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...
