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Art and Neurosciences

Art and Neurosciences

by Mónica Márquez (M.A.) for Walk the Arts | Jan 13, 2021 | art classes Italy France, Art workshops, General, Ideas, Painting | plein air, painting workshops Italy France

2021: Time for novelty, surprise, harmony, parsimony, and empathy! Can we talk about the neuroscience of art? This is the question that French neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux addresses in his beautiful book The Beauty in the Brain or La Beauté dans le Cerveau...
Traveling after COVID-19.

Traveling after COVID-19.

by Yves M. Larocque | Oct 12, 2020 | art classes Italy France, art retreat, Painting, Painting | plein air

Our painting workshops; a time for reevaluation in Europe? We now have this urge to travel. More travelers 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 lives. ...
The bastard of Marcel Duchamp: Contemporary Art

The bastard of Marcel Duchamp: Contemporary Art

by Yves M. Larocque | Apr 30, 2020 | art classes Italy France, Art History, General, Inspiration |Thoughts

We are not living a crisis but a change of time “Urinal, you are” fountain “, and on this fountain, I will build my art! “(Christine Sourgins, Mirages of Contemporary Art, yet to be translated in English) Well, I have read Christine...
Our Art Workshops in Italy and the Macchiaoli 

Our Art Workshops in Italy and the Macchiaoli 

by Yves M. Larocque | Feb 20, 2020 | art classes Italy France, art retreat, General, Painting | plein air

Approach your painting “empirically” Many years ago, during a trip to Florence, I discovered the luminous paintings by the Macchiaioli at the Gallery of Modern Art in the Palazzo Pitti and immediately felt connected to their painting approach. Since then, I always say...
Art, You and 2020

Art, You and 2020

by Yves M. Larocque | Jan 1, 2020 | art classes Italy France, En français, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting | plein air

Above >Two paintings by Wassily Kandinsky showing that every day he tried to achieve a better understanding of the world in which he was participating. Scroll down for French and Spanish translations. Défilez vers le bas pour les traductions en français et en...
May I see the instructor’s works?

May I see the instructor’s works?

by Yves M. Larocque | Dec 21, 2019 | art classes Italy France, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting, Painting | plein air

You may, but… Back in 1997, during the very first days of Walk the Arts painting workshops in Tuscany and Provence, I would paint with the group. After a couple of years, I came to realize that I was not fully dedicating my time to my budding artists. Indeed,...

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