by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 28, 2014 | Art History, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
My wife Mónica is beautiful ! As my last post reads, I recently hired four astounding professors from various universities to work on the following question: “What is beautiful”? Their answers will be soon available in the form of short presentations on Vimeo. The...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 17, 2014 | Art History, Inspiration |Thoughts
Our upcoming painting workshops in Tuscany and Provence June & July 2014 During the last few weeks, I hired four astounding professors from various universities to work on the following question: “What is beautiful”? Their answers will be available shortly in the...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Apr 20, 2014 | Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Matthias Grünewald the cosmologist. My challenging reading of Max Tegmark’s Our Mathematical Universe (Knoph, New York, 2014) made me go to the library to get a few books on our universe so I can read them peacefully in my bed. One of them was the wonderful collection...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Apr 12, 2014 | Art History, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Art, a reflection of the past or the future? As art historians or artists, we need to be aware of knowledge developing at an accelerating pace. We need to know about the current state of science even if we are not scientists; just as we keep ourselves informed about...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Feb 28, 2014 | Art History, General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Why attending one of our painting workshops in Italy or France? During our painting workshops in Tuscany and Provence, we aim to provoke the creative act by challenging our participants to see and think in new ways. If not, why traveling so far and investing in a...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jan 17, 2014 | General, Inspiration |Thoughts, Painting
Our painting workshops, great art summer camp? We have read that more and more travellers from the developed world are looking for meaningful travels. Increasingly, we are aiming for journeys that allow us to learn something new, to deepen our culture, to enhance our...
