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Category Archive: General

Saturday Mac riddles 23

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: You never want […]

November 30, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Paintings of Léon Frédéric: 2 Mystical nature

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He won two gold medals at Expositions Universelles. Includes an 11 metre long work with 7 panels, showing scenes from Heaven and Hell.

November 29, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Léon Frédéric: 1 Rural poor

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A fantasy self-portrait naked with a skeleton on his lap, and one of the most haunting depictions of rural deprivation. A very unusual artist indeed.

November 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Auguste Renoir 9: 1906-1910

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He falls in love with Cagnes, moving first to a rented flat, then to a house built for him amid ancient olive trees. And he painted furiously.

November 27, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Orlando Furioso: Rinaldo in combat, and Charlemagne’s palace under threat

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At the siege of Paris, Rinaldo arrives with the Scottish and English reinforcements, and engages with the Saracens, while one man runs amok in the city itself.

November 26, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Auguste Renoir 8: 1901-1905

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In which Renoir seeks comfort from his arthritis in the south of France, first in Le Cannet, then Cagnes-sur-Mer. Marvellous landscapes.

November 25, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 22

Did you get all three this week? Solutions explained, including a strange episode in the history of the Western calendar.

November 25, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

There’s no smoke without painting 2

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Smoke in paintings by Poussin, Millet, Homer, Sargent, Waterhouse, Rossetti, and others with more subtle meanings about wind, magic, and gambling.

November 24, 2019 General, Life, Painting

There’s no smoke without painting 1

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The Sack of Troy, Turner, Vesuvius erupting, an unusual Manet maritime, Vallotton, Paul Nash, Monet, Luce, Signac, Stella and more going up in smoke.

November 23, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 22

Everyone should be able to get this week’s. Why not have a try yourself?

November 23, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

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