by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 19, 2010 | Art History, General
Sofonisba Anguissola (1530–1625), born in Cremona into an aristocratic family, the best known of six painter sisters. She trained with Bernardino Campi and Gatti. Due to the constraints imposed on women of her time, she did not have access to anatomy studies or...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 15, 2010 | Art History, Food | Cooking
Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472), born in Genoa. One of the first Renaissance humanists, Alberti excelled as an architect, sculptor, painter, art theorist and writer. He wrote on a wide variety of subjects, including painting (Della Pittura), architecture (De re...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 9, 2010 | Art History, En français, Inspiration |Thoughts
Cette chronique se fera cette fois-ci au « je » ; car la question est à la fois très personnelle et farfelue. Elle est la suivante. Le bon vieux confessionnal (et toute sa philosophie) des églises catholiques a-t-il promeut l’automatisme de la peinture ? Il semblerait...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 2, 2010 | Art History, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Back to this idea of letting go (see post May 21st) let’s recall that in the course of the 16th century there was a kind of “letting go” movement; Mannerism. The Mannerists were a wild bunch of show-off artists who lived from the middle to the end of the 16th...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Apr 20, 2010 | Art History
A review of the March 10, 2010 conference on ‘The Arrival of Surrealism in Canada’ given by Prof. Yves M. Larocque at the National Art Gallery by Nancy Brandsma (March 24, 2010) Jock Macdonald, Untitled (1946), watercolor, priv. coll. As an accomplished public...
