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Category Archive: General

Saturday Mac riddles 98

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: An incision […]

May 8, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Still Life History: 1 Birth of a new genre

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Until the seventeenth century, still life paintings were occasional curiosities, From the Romans and Hans Memling to the early Dutch Golden Age the genre developed steadily.

May 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Thomas Baines, Artist and Storekeeper 2

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His later paintings showed previous expeditions, a new trip to the Matabele in search of gold, and early settlers in Cape Province, South Africa.

May 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Thomas Baines, Artist and Storekeeper 1

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A coach-painter from Norfolk who emigrated to South Africa when he was 22, then went on expedition there, in Australia, and with David Livingstone.

May 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Don Quixote 8: The cloth mill and Mambrino’s helmet

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The pair grow scared of noises in the night. When they finally investigate, it’s just a cloth mill. They meet with a barber wearing his bowl on his head, which become the legendary helmet.

May 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

AirTags, Big Sur and your privacy and safety

Big Sur 11.3 includes support for AirTags, as explained here. Apple has also thought out how they could be misused, and how to prevent that.

May 4, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Rebirth: Composition

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From Leonardo’s abandoned Adoration of the Magi from 1482, his development of pyramidal form in composition influenced Raphael and many others.

May 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 97

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 97. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Armour, […]

May 3, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Why paint a still life? 3 Therapy

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After his severe stroke, Lovis Corinth used still lifes to learn to paint with his right hand. Charles Demuth found solace in them when recovering from acute diabetic complications.

May 2, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Why paint a still life? 2 Sales

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Throughout his forty-year artistic career, he made a successful living not from painting the enigmatic group portraits for which he’s now famous, but floral still lifes.

May 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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