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Category Archive: General

Saturday Mac riddles 158

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

July 2, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Mary Cassatt’s pastels

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Possibly taught by the portraitist Charles Chaplin, she painted pastels with Edgar Degas but took a different approach to composition, specialising in mothers and infants.

July 1, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Paul Signac 11: The Twenties

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Pointillist oil paintings from the last 15 years of his life, when he mainly painted watercolours. These concentrate on ports and bridges of Paris.

June 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 11: Sorolla and Zorn

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In Spain, Sorolla was first Naturalist, then his style loosened to resemble that of Sargent; Zorn in Sweden painted early detailed watercolours before loosening up in oils.

June 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 2: Macbeth

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Its two scenes with witches are most famous, and often confused. There’s more to this play, though, and other scenes in fine paintings.

June 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 157

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 157. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Assumed […]

June 27, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Bewitched: Paintings of witches 2

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Pre-Raphaelites painted Morgan le Fay from Arthurian legend, and the Nabi Paul Ranson seemed fascinated by witches.

June 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Bewitched: Paintings of witches 1

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Interest in paintings of witchcraft grew in the Age of Enlightenment, with a series painted by Goya for the Duchess of Osuna.

June 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 157

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

June 25, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Odd Man Out: pastels of Edgar Degas

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Pastel paintings were central to his art, from empty beach landscapes of 1869, through the ballet, to women bathing and dressing in the 1880s, and fantasy landscapes of 1892.

June 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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