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Category Archive: General

Paintings of Paul Signac 5: Colour and anarchy

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Themes from Saint-Tropez of grand trees, fishing boats with simultaneous contrast of colours, a portrait of his wife, and an anarchist idyll.

May 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 5: Fooling the brain

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From Veronese’s bravura brushstrokes to the crafted surface textures of lavish and heavy fabrics with Rembrandt.

May 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 5: Fauvism in mainstream painting

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In the early 20th century, painters started using intense colours, often raw from the tube, and those shifted to give green flesh and blue horses.

May 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Don Quixote: Book 2 summary and contents 1

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From preparations for their third sally to the massacre of Don Pedro’s puppet theatre, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza have trouble keeping out of trouble.

May 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 151

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 151. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

May 16, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Painting the Casualties of War 2

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Paul Nash and John Singer Sargent’s paintings for the Hall of Remembrance, the tragic loss of Eric Ravilious, a Serb painter executed in a concentration camp, and more.

May 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Casualties of War 1

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Frédéric Bazille and Henri Regnault, both killed in the brief Franco-Prussian War. War artists including former surgeon Henry Tonks show scenes from the First World War.

May 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 151

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

May 14, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Pastel Portraits of Rosalba Carriera

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One of the most brilliant of the first wave of painters in pastels, a founding mother of the Rococo, and one of the greatest of all women painters.

May 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Paul Signac 4: Two deaths and marriage

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Deaths of Van Gogh and Georges Seurat. Signac’ unsuccessful interiors, and his far more popular landscapes.

May 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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