Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Projections, contours, where […]
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Comedy is unusual in paintings, and where it occurs, it’s more usually a visual joke. But there are exceptions in a tale-within-a-tale from Homer.
Initiated by Whistler from 1860, it became popular with artists returning from training in Paris in the 1880s, then Sargent, Sickert, and teachers Tonks and Clausen.
Staffage – people, animals, birds, carts and ships – make a big difference to many landscape paintings. Have you met the Wanderer too?
Finding an empty boat on the bank of the Ebro, the pair drift out on a new adventure to rescue a knight or queen in distress. The result is disaster.
Don Quixote runs amok at a puppet show, destroying all the puppets, then has to beat a hasty retreat when Sancho brays out of turn.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 126. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Select […]
Telling a story using shadows, and the nineteenth century controversy over the colour of shadows.
From the shadowed silhouette painted by the legendary Dibutades to paintings of families involved in shadow play.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Select Khoekhoe for […]
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