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Category Archive: General

Commemorating the centenary of the death of Charles Angrand

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In 1880, a detailed realist, he then became more experimental with looser brushstrokes before adopting Divisionism in 1887. His later paintings took over from where van Gogh left off.

April 1, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: Paint to print

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How Hogarth developed his painting and print narrative series from rough drawings. Examples of prints made after paintings by Mary Cassatt and Nikolai Astrup for different reasons.

March 31, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 10 Rinaldo retrieved

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Charles and Ubaldo show Rinaldo how he has become a woman’s dandy, and get him to return to the crusade with them, leaving Armida seeking her vengeance.

March 30, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 353

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 353. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The future […]

March 30, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Paintings of Lake Geneva: Ferdinand Hodler

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Over 20 years of views over the lake from Hodler, with his Parallelist style, and culminating in some of the most sublime landscapes in European painting.

March 29, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Lake Geneva: Turner to Courbet

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Paintings from 19th century masters including JMW Turner, the Swiss specialist Alexandre Calame, John Ferguson Weir, and Gustave Courbet in exile.

March 28, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 353

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The future […]

March 28, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

The bicentenary of Gustave Moreau: 1852-1871

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Early career, including the Judgement of Paris, Hesiod and the Muses, Oedipus and the Sphinx, Jason, Orpheus, and Jupiter and Europa.

March 27, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Naturalists: Science and medicine

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It moved from depicting the rural poor in the countryside, to scientists teaching, a major research meeting, technology in the workplace, and the rise of the clinic in hospital medicine.

March 26, 2026 General, Life, Painting

On Reflection: Impressionism

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Is it feasible to paint optically accurate reflections quickly in front of the motif? Examples from CamilleCorot, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley demonstrate that it is.

March 25, 2026 General, Life, Painting

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