by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Oct 30, 2026 | Art | Religion | Theory, art classes Italy France, art retreat, Art workshops, Ideas, Inspiration |Thoughts, Online art classes, Philosophy
What, in essence, is the sublime? There must surely be some mechanism—visual, auditory, psychological, etc.—capable of bringing forth this sublime that I seek so intensely. This is what Baldine Saint Girons (1945) attempts to demonstrate in her book Le Sublime de...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 1, 2020 | Art History, Ideas, painting workshops Italy France
Radical-polemicist-radical or capitalist-strategist? Why does the negative attract us more than the positive? A timely post in the time of COVID-19 Commenting on Yves’last post, it is my turn now to comment on Mme Sourgins’ book, The Mirages of Contemporary Art, yet...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Sep 5, 2019 | General, Ideas
Working in Series I imagine this famous scene of the post-coital cigarette seen in so many movies: the couple of a one-night-stand against the bed headboard, under the sheets, in the dark, intertwined by the fumaroles of a cigarette. It’s over. They seem...
