by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jan 1, 2011 | Art History, Food | Cooking
Wishing you an excellent 2011 January 1st 2011, from Cartagena de Indias in Colombia.I have just learned how to prepare patacones, plantain cooked in the Caribbean way. A recipe from Lai, the maid from Gases del Caribe office in Cartagena, department of Bolîvar in...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Dec 16, 2010 | Art History, Food | Cooking, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
The Art of Cooking! In the latter part of the 15th Century, the great chef, Maestro Martino de Rossi, who worked for both the Princes of the State and the Church, wrote what seems to be the first truly cooking manuscript in Italy. Following the humoral theory of the...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Dec 12, 2010 | Art History, General, Inspiration |Thoughts
The Lives of Others by Monica Marquez As we all know Monica Marquez is icscis/walkthearts’ project manager. Her last show in Ottawa provoked much discussion within the artist and gallery community, the purpose of art. As a result, Monica’s works are featured as the...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Nov 8, 2010 | Art History, Food | Cooking, Inspiration |Thoughts
Painting and eating Two treatises were written in the beginning of the Italian Renaissance. The first one in Florence in 1436 by the great humanist, Leon Battista Alberti, entitled Della Pittura (On Painting), and the second one in Rome around 1460 by the “eminent”...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Oct 11, 2010 | Art History, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
My favorite artist? Here we are once again in Firenze (Florence) and I had to stop once more at Santa Felicita Church, just across the Ponte Vecchio to see my favorite painting done by one of my favorite artists: Pontormo. I do not know why I love this artist. I...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Aug 14, 2010 | Art History, Food | Cooking, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Let’s carry on from our Vico post posted on July 12. So many times we stay anchored in our old ways and paradigms out of fear and a false sense of security. We are comfortable; we do not want to force too much. So many times we read in painting instruction books: “do...
