by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 3, 2011 | Art History, Food | Cooking, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Getting Ready for Atelier Provence After a night in Milan and train trip to Marseille where we picked up our van, we are finally in our lodge in the middle of the Valensole plateau. The beauty of the juxtaposition of the lavender and the blond wheat fields is...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 23, 2011 | Art History, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Getting ready for Studio Italia show! Since 2006 we have been part of the marvelous arts and gastronomy festival il colle degli ulivi held every June in the charming medieval village of Rigomagno (Siena). On June 20 we mounted our Studio Italia’s show in a pop-up...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 21, 2011 | Art History, Painting
Painting in Montepulciano Monica and I (or the collective Lost Paradigm) were asked to show one of our works at Il Colle degli Olivi jazz and gastronomy festival held every June in Rigomagno, a small top hill medieval village in the province of Siena. In the midst of...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 6, 2011 | Art History, Food | Cooking, Painting
On May 3 we presented A Taste of Italian Art, our first cooking class at the LCBO Rideau! We enjoyed enormously the experience and fortunately everything went smooth! The timing was perfect, the dishes were “au point”, the stove, the oven and the projector worked well...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Feb 4, 2011 | Art History, General, Inspiration |Thoughts
From the brothel to the Museum A lecture on Les Demoiselles d’Avignon before New York Art Trip 2011 (March 17-20) “Picasso understood instinctively that the Western tradition had been losing contact with that primordial, talismanic aim of image-making… Les Demoiselles...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jan 13, 2011 | Art History, General
Arts and Politics in New York art trip 2011 (March 17-20) As usual our upcoming art tour to New York city promises to be very exciting with so many interesting shows. Among others, our upcoming participants will have the chance to validate the persistent relevance of...