OSA 010C A real Intro do painting >  A discovery of colour and light would adequately describe this introductory course: how to achieve crisp clear colours, full of light without them becoming mud. Colour theory will also be addressed in this course. All subject matters will be used: still life, copying the Masters, abstract, or any other which will initiate the student to colour and also Art History

OSA 010F Painting Resource >This new stimulating course is for those who are at a turning point of their painting culture.  You may already know the great principles of colors, shapes, perspective, and you are at ease in your medium, may it be oil, acrylic, or watercolor; and if you are not, it is not important. But it seems that is always the notion of content which seems to interfere with your creativity; the three “Cs”: content, concept, and context.  What should I paint?  Where should I go?  Why I am repeating?  Why am I imitating?  Where is my creativity?  In brief, how can I become authentic as an emerging artist?  It is within this framework that we will try, together, to answer these questions, crucial to art making. 

OSA F220  Art Today > In engaging a History of the Way of Seeing (une histoire du regard), from the Industrial Revolution to our Information Age, the student will fully comprehend the history of the major artistic periods/trends of the late 19th and 20th centuries in painting, sculpture and emerging art; from Niepce first photography to plasma screen images, via abstraction, linguistic, Photoshop, Transavangardia, Internet, etc., all in conjunction with the act of creation itself and the act of vision ; an attempt in differentiating Modernism and Postmodernism will be successful. A very close look to the Western World will accompany the art of this most productive century of Humanity.

OSA F120 Art Survey I; a mediological approach > First, an art analysis in connection with the advent of the First Revolution (the Agricultural Revolution), from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic. Follows the inquiry of the art production of the First and Second Antiquity; a very close examination of the decline of the Roman Empire and the following Dark Ages in order to fully comprehend the artistic set back; and finally, the examination of art in relation with the becoming of organised religion: Christianity and Islam. All these periods will be studied in conjuncture with social history in order to situate the works of art in their contexts, may they be religious, political, social and societal.

Winnipeg (Manitoba)
January 2010 Annual General Meeting of AGAVF

Some past Events
MONTRÉAL: Mexican Modern Art and Triomphe du Baroque
NEW YORK: Three hour painting workshop
PHILADELPHIA: Duchamp and the Museums
BOSTON: Mary Cassatt
MONTREAL : Monet in Giverny
WASHINGTON: Van Gogh's Van Gogh
TORONTO: Courtauld Collection
QUÉBEC: Discovering Rodin
NEW YORK: The Magritte Retrospective
NEW YORK: The Surrealism Retrospective
NEW YORK: Sensation at the Brooklyn Art Museum
NEW YORK: Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso/Matisse, Manet/Goya
NEW YORK: The Amory Show and the Whitney Biennial 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008.

In Planning

Oh Canada! (TBA)
A very vibrant and loving overview of Canadian culture from 1600 to our current times: geography, the First Nations reality, Catholicism and the French Canadians; Protestantism and the rise of English Canadian Nationalism; the First and Second World War; Canadian ideology confronted by European ideas, Internationalism versus Nationalism; French Canadian Automatism; the “letting go” of Canadian Puritanism in forging a true Canadian identity.

This seminar is the essential itinerary for any person having chosen to live in Canada, may it be for a year or their whole life, for it will direct him or her in the meanders of the Canadian psyche, built from the very first day of the colonization to the post-modernization of today.
At the end of this seven week class topped by an unforgettable comfortable stay in the Canadian woods, the newcomer will undoubtedly appreciate Canadian culture in its full sense, may it be aboriginal, French, English, or…  To be concise, history of Canadian culture in conjunction with the various Canadian identities through, geography, history, “mediology” (discipline that studies mass media and power), and “dromology” (knowledge defined by space and “speed”). 

Perspective workshop (TBA)


The aim of this course is to provide the students with a solid basic notion of one vanishing point perspective drawing.  A series of exercises and problems will sharpen visual perception of various drawing components: horizon line, vanishing points, the reality, the virtual, etc.  At the end of the session, he/she will be able to immediately transfer ideas directly to the paper from his/her imagination. The notion of depth will be more than accurate, therefore creating space in the drawing. This class is essential for the student intending to paint, applying to an architectural or animation program, or simply enjoying drawing and applying the rationale behind the discipline.