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...
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.) | 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.) | Mar 25, 2014 | Food | Cooking, General, Painting
Today, a delicious break from art history and painting. Risotto with eggplants and black olive tapenade is a recipe created by walkthearts and offered during our art workshops in Provence. We hope that participants of our upcoming Atelier Provence 2014 (July 5-15)...
