by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 9, 2014 | Painting | plein air
Getting ready for our painting workshop in Italy I am now at the Frankfurt airport and have a few minutes to write this post. In a few days, we will be a group of 10 artists from both hemispheres, painting the landscape in the middle of Tuscany. I thought that for...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 28, 2014 | Art History, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
My wife Mónica is beautiful ! As my last post reads, I recently hired four astounding professors from various universities to work on the following question: “What is beautiful”? Their answers will be soon available in the form of short presentations on Vimeo. The...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 17, 2014 | Art History, Inspiration |Thoughts
Our upcoming painting workshops in Tuscany and Provence June & July 2014 During the last few weeks, I hired four astounding professors from various universities to work on the following question: “What is beautiful”? Their answers will be available shortly in the...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Apr 20, 2014 | Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Matthias Grünewald the cosmologist. My challenging reading of Max Tegmark’s Our Mathematical Universe (Knoph, New York, 2014) made me go to the library to get a few books on our universe so I can read them peacefully in my bed. One of them was the wonderful collection...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Apr 12, 2014 | Art History, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Art, a reflection of the past or the future? As art historians or artists, we need to be aware of knowledge developing at an accelerating pace. We need to know about the current state of science even if we are not scientists; just as we keep ourselves informed about...