by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 13, 2015 | Art History, General
A Première on the Internet Every year, during my Survey I Art history class I devote a week to Greek Art. One of the slide is of course The Dying Niobid a beautiful Greek classical sculpture done around 440 B.C.E. This is the usual slide that all the art history...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 31, 2015 | Art History, General, Inspiration |Thoughts
Art: “navel-gazerism” of the G20 countries The college Winter semester is over in North America. My corrections are done. I would like to share with you all one of the questions of my Canadian Art History exam. In a nutshell, the students had to compare Canada’s...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jan 27, 2015 | Art History, General
Painting the landscape with Mr. Turner It is with the art historian enthusiasm that I purchased my ticket to see Mike Leigh’s latest movie Mr. Turner. Should it be a movie to be mandatory seen by my students, or my artists attending our painting art classes in Italy...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Dec 9, 2014 | Art History, Inspiration |Thoughts
Jack Bush and Walk the Arts’ classes In Canada’s capital, Ottawa, there is a fantastic exhibit on Jack Bush (1909-1977), undoubtedly the most important English Canadian painter— Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002) being the most important one in French Canada. Dr....
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Nov 18, 2014 | Art History, Painting
Madame Cézanne at the Met show during New York Art Trip 2015 (March 12-15) In 1869, Cézanne started to live with Hortense Fiquet, a bookbinder 11 years younger than him, whom he had met as a model in Paris when he was studying painting. For eight years, Cézanne kept...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 4, 2014 | Art History, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Contemporary art during painting workshop in Italy Just finished another Studio Italia. Undoubtedly, one of the highlights of our last painting workshop in Tuscany (near Montepulciano) was the making of an installation around the famous Chianina cow breed. For the...
