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Category Archive: General

Saturday Mac riddles 110

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

July 31, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Impressionist painting in Britain: 2 Walter Sickert

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A pupil of Whistler’s and member of his circle, he too adopted a form of Impressionism during the 1880s. With examples of landscape paintings.

July 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Reject: Gustave Courbet, The Painter’s Studio

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The jury for the French Pavilion at the Exposition Universelle in 1855 rejected three of Courbet’s paintings, including one of the canonical paintings of the century.

July 29, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Francisco Goya: 6 The new king and rural humour

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More superb cartoons to be woven into tapestries for royal palaces, including a panorama of Madrid, and humorour rural scenes.

July 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Still Life History: Deceiving the eye

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From the earliest still life paintings, many were designed not just to look realistic, but to deceive the viewer. Examples from van Eyck to the 20th century.

July 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Don Quixote 20: Attempted arrest and imprisonment

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In a succession brawls, officers of the law try to arrest Don Quixote, but are dissuaded. When the knight wants to ride off, he’s bound and loaded onto an ox cart in a cage.

July 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 109

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 109. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Nearby, […]

July 26, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

River in Flight: paintings of waterfalls 2

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From Church’s view of Niagara, Bierstadt in the Sierra Nevada, to two early landscape views of Ferdinand Hodler.

July 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

River in Flight: paintings of waterfalls 1

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From Tivoli, near Rome, in 1757, through the Alps with Wolf and Turner, to remote Albania as seen by Edward Lear, artist and poet.

July 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 109

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

July 24, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

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