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Category Archive: General

Sheer Delight 4: Gone with the wind

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What is that princess doing dressed for a pageant, and what is happening to her swatch of carmine fabric? How billows express motion.

May 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 4: Under no illusions

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A journey through some visual illusions show how a simple physical concept of human colour vision doesn’t work. It’s all about perception, not physics.

May 10, 2022 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Don Quixote 57: Don Quixote’s death

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Once back in his village, Don Quixote explained about his defeat and promise to stay at home for a year. Over a period of ten days, he later declined and died.

May 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 150

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 150. Here are my solutions to them. 1: One […]

May 9, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

The Meiji Renaissance: Antonio Fontanesi and Japanese painting 2

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Kuroda Seiki moved to Paris in 1884 to study law. Two years later, he changed to painting, and returned to Japan to transform art there.

May 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Meiji Renaissance: Antonio Fontanesi and Japanese painting 1

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In 1876, a relatively unknown Italian landscape painter started the transformation of Japanese painting from its 400 year old tradition.

May 7, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 150

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

May 7, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Alongside Tintoretto: Paintings of Andrea Vicentino

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He painted alongside Tintoretto in Venice, then around 1600 painted an epic replacement for one of Tintoretto’s works destroyed by fire.

May 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Paul Signac 3: To the water

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During 1888-89, he started sailing his boat, the ‘Tub’, on the River Seine, and visited the coast. He moved from industrial views to those of rivers, the sea and watersports.

May 5, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Interested in words and language? Nalaprop 1.1 might help

Parse text into parts of speech, or simply recognise their language or script. Analyse the frequency of words in a text, with an option to do this by word roots (lemmas).

May 5, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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