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Category Archive: General

More than a Nabi 3: Félix Vallotton 1907-1914

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Stories retold differently from Perseus and Andromeda, the Rape of Europa, and some atmospheric landscapes of Honfleur in snow and fog.

December 12, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 238 Bread of life

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The goddess Ceres, The Last Supper, and the supper at Emmaus, Easter Sunday bread in Ukraine, bread as charity and the daily bread.

December 11, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How online search and AI can install malware

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I asked Google how I could clear disk space on macOS, and it couldn’t have been more helpful. But what I was told to do downloaded malware to my Mac. How come?

December 11, 2025 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Stories

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The Annunciation, and myth of Vertumnus and Pomona, a tale from Roman history, a favourite fable, stories of schools and a concert of the birds.

December 10, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: Oil on paper

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Artists who sketched in front of the motif using oil paints to gather image libraries often kept those on paper, rather than wood panel or stretched canvas.

December 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Painted stories of the Decameron: The pot of basil

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Three brothers discover their unmarried sister’s secret lover. They take him to the country, kill him and bury his body. She exhumes him, and takes his head away to hide in a pot of basil.

December 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 337

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 337. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Passing […]

December 8, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Fog on the Thames 1900-1926

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Some of Claude Monet’s series from 1903-04, Le Sidaner, Émile Claus, and ending with Lesser Ury from 1926. But there was a more sinister side to the fog and smog.

December 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Fog on the Thames 1844-1899

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Paintings starting with JMW Turner in 1844, through Monet in 1871, Winslow Homer, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Tom Roberts, Pissarro, and Childe Hassam.

December 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 337

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

December 6, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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