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Category Archive: General

Paintings of Forbidden Love: Pyramus and Thisbe

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The model for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, this couple committed suicide when each presumed they had brought the death of the other.

May 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Forbidden Love: Hero and Leander

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Byron, no stranger to forbidden love, swam across the Dardanelles in 1810, retracing the strokes of the legendary Leander who died trying to reach his lover Hero.

May 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 202

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: For three years […]

May 6, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Hard reality: 3 Cast shadows in figurative painting

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Leonardo da Vinci studied different types of shade and shadow, but recommended painters not to depict cast shadows in their paintings. This explains why.

May 5, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 54 Music B

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More paintings of music, from the Aesthetic watercolour of Marie Spartali Stillman to folk dance, and Vuillard’s friends playing in his apartment.

May 4, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 53 Music A

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Evoking music from a painting is a serious challenge, yet many artists have tried it. See if any of these work for you. From Lavinia Fontana to Degas.

May 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ukrainian Painters: Serhii Svitoslavskyi

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A prolific landscape painter who taught key members of the avant garde. He was also a founding supporter of Kyiv Zoo.

May 2, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 10 The death of Achilles

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First, Achilles kills Penthesileia, an Amazon, whose great beauty fills him with remorse. Then come Memnon, who proves Achilles’ undoing by Paris’s arrow.

May 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 201

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 201. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Show […]

May 1, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Into the Arctic: A celebration of the paintings of William Bradford 2

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In 1869 he sailed on board ‘Panther’ on an expedition to Greenland and the Arctic. Among his subsequent commissioned paintings was one for Queen Victoria.

April 30, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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