by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 17, 2019 | Art History, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting | plein air
Viewing the painting = Reliving that Moment Currently in Europe; Studio Italia has ended, about to start Atelier Provence. One of our blog subscribers, a docent at the National Gallery of Canada, recently finished reading Michael Findlay’s Seeing Slowly; Looking at...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 1, 2019 | Art | Religion | Theory, General, Painting, Painting | plein air
Why painting the same chickadee? Confronted with the landscape, the artist needs to surrender to nature in order to truly express on canvas the unique emotions and feelings resulting from this challenge. Here, Zoe letting go in the Val d’Orcia during our...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Dec 6, 2018 | Art | Religion | Theory, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Achieving extreme lucidity, the secret of art Although still poorly defined, hypnosis is today a banal phenomenon, admitted by unbelievers and recognized by medicine. It stops smoking, increases libido, and even anesthetizes. As reported by Prof. Brian Josephson...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 22, 2018 | Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting | plein air
Art making is a “moment” of fleeting eternity Eternity is outside time. Eternity should not be mistaken for the elasticity of time, a time that never ends. Yes! eternity is indeed outside time. It doesn’t have a beginning nor an end. It is something in itself; it has...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Feb 22, 2018 | General, Painting, Painting | plein air
The importance of an artistic statement to develop new concepts As we always say during our art workshops in Provence (France) and Italy, we can still paint landscapes and other traditional subjects, but we need to develop new ways of seeing bringing forth new...
