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Art and Existentialism
Why attending one of our painting workshops in Italy or France? During our painting workshops in Tuscany and Provence, we aim to provoke the creative act by challenging our participants to see and think in new ways. If not, why traveling so far and investing in a...
Risk-taker or not, everyone is welcome to our painting workshops in Italy
You the Mannerist during our art workshop in Tuscany! Attending one of our painting workshops in Tuscany or Provence, is being a member of a wild bunch! We are not going to rob the Banca de Toscana, like the aging group of outlaws of the notorious 1969 movie The Wild...
Travelling with meaning; our painting workshops
Our painting workshops, great art summer camp? We have read that more and more travellers from the developed world are looking for meaningful travels. Increasingly, we are aiming for journeys that allow us to learn something new, to deepen our culture, to enhance our...
Following Alberti’s path in 2014
Becoming better artists according to Alberti 2014, a new year arrives with our usual list of personal and professional goals to be accomplished. On our side, we are getting ready for our annual art trip to New York City and our art workshops in Tuscany, and in...
Understanding when you paint II
A moose leaving tracks, leaving contexts Art, context and moose They say "One picture is worth a thousand words". However, you only need a few words to radically change the way an image will be perceived and interpreted by a spectator, the public and even a… moose...
Understanding what you paint !
Denotation and connotation As an artist, you have always to remember that a work of art connotes and denotes. Denotation refers to the literal or explicit sense of a word. It is the first definition provided by a dictionary. Connotation refers to the various...
The Power of Art
The transformative power of art... At the end of September, a fantastic national forum entitled “Power of the Arts: Advancing Social Change” took place in Ottawa, Canada. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend because during those dates I was in Italy leading one of...
Utopia for 10 days; our painting workshop in Tuscany
Utopian Art If a utopian society is the representation of a free, peaceful, fair and happy world for everyone, what would be utopian art? Some might find the question redundant as art is in itself is a utopia because it allows to create new worlds apart from reality....
Upon everyone’s return from our painting workshop in Tuscany
The dialectical image In a few hours, our group will arrive for our fall session of our painting workshop Studio Italia. For the next ten days we will incessantly paint the beautiful landscapes of Tuscany. Then once everyone will be back to the United States, Canada...
Sharing knowledge during an art workshop
Knowledge and relationships Today in our digital age, the sharing and the relationship to knowledge prevail. The acquisition of knowledge is at hand, and for all. We only have to get informed and to learn from the Web. I no longer teach art history as before,...
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