by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 12, 2010 | Food | Cooking, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
An Italian philosopher is certainly needed for our painting workshops—and who better than the Neapolitan Giovanni Battista Vico (1668–1744) with his well-known verum esse ipsum factum (“truth itself is constructed”). As Vico argued through his famous principle first...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 29, 2010 | Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
As all my former students know, art is much more than the mechanics of painting such as basic color principles and fundamental techniques. You can find all this information on the Net and in so many books sold in Barnes and Noble, Chapters, Amazon… in brief the...
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 | Inspiration |Thoughts
Destruction is also good! Kristin Willemsen (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) In painting class a few months ago, Prof. Yves Larocque encouraged us ”let go” with our art work by destroying and rebuilding our paintings we had just completed. This exercise taught us to not be...
