by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Oct 15, 2016 | Art History, General
From Greek Art to Contemporay Art Tour We are taking the opportunity to highlight our upcoming Art Trip Italy and the Venice Biennale 2017 (June 1-11) https://walkthearts.com/_art_tours/art_tour_italy_biennale.shtml While we have done a lot of art history trips in...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Sep 27, 2016 | Art | Religion | Theory, Inspiration |Thoughts
You the Emitter: knowledge! In Detroit. In a few minutes I will be boarding a plane to Florence to get ready for our upcoming art workshop Studio Italia in Tuscany. I am taking advantage of my quiet waiting spot to review this post. This post follows on ideas,...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Aug 14, 2016 | General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting | plein air
Heather at SALA Australia A Sure Shot Back from Italy, back to our office and before we tackle our fourth segment of “How I see Art”, we would like to share this story, a follow-up of a previous post. We are always very happy to hear about the artistic achievements of...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 14, 2016 | Art | Religion | Theory, General, Inspiration |Thoughts
Ideas, instruments of knowledge (1) In our previous post, we discussed about the notion of cultural territory, the “art-world”. Now, it is time to talk about the ideas inhabiting this territory. An idea is a thing of the mind, born from many minds, product of...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 24, 2016 | Art | Religion | Theory, General
Artworld and “art-worlds” In our Western world and for many valid reasons, more and more people are practising the visual arts. Undoubtedly we are inundated with paintings of all sorts, excellent, good, mediocre and simply bad. But what makes a work of art...
