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How I see Art (4b)

You the Emitter: intention! Now let’s talk about intention, having already discussed about knowledge on our last post. In art, knowledge and intention walk hand in hand and “serious” artists deal with these two important concepts when confronting their works of art....

How I see Art (4a)

You the Emitter: knowledge! In Detroit. In a few minutes I will be boarding a plane to Florence to get ready for our upcoming art workshop Studio Italia in Tuscany. I am taking advantage of my quiet waiting spot to review this post. This post follows on ideas,...

How I see Art (3)

Ideas, instruments of knowledge (1) In our previous post, we discussed about the notion of cultural territory, the “art-world”. Now, it is time to talk about the ideas inhabiting this territory. An idea is a thing of the mind, born from many minds, product of...

How I see Art (2)

by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 24, 2016 | Art | Religion | Theory, General

Artworld and “art-worlds” In our Western world and for many valid reasons, more and more people are practising the visual arts. Undoubtedly we are inundated with paintings of all sorts, excellent, good, mediocre and simply bad. But what makes a work of art...

The Art of Humility

We are living a second Renaissance When I was doing my walk the other day, I thought of great artists, both alive and dead, who in spite of their talent and success, managed to remain humble. While we can find this type of people not only in the arts, but also in...

A Second Reformation or a Counter Reformation?

by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Dec 4, 2015 | Art | Religion | Theory, Art History, General

Are we going to see an upsurge of Christian Art? The Protestant Reformation happened in Germany (October 1517) when Martin Luther (then Catholic) nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church. The document heavily criticized the Church and the...