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Category Archive: General

Update to Nalaprop to parse natural language

It can parse text in any combination of 8 different languages, showing parts of speech and even word roots.

June 8, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Gustave Courbet 6: Into exile

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Becoming involved in the Commune after the Franco-Prussian War, he ended up in prison, finally painting in exile in Switzerland.

June 7, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 12 Stretched canvas

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First popularised for use with glue tempera, ‘canvas’ quickly developed into the first choice for oils. In Venice, canvases as large as tennis courts were used by Veronese and Tintoretto.

June 6, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 16 An overview of Hell

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The very best paintings showing Dante’s journey through Hell, as described in his Inferno. William Blake, Corot, Doré, Koch, and more.

June 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Gustave Courbet 5: Waves and caves

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The other side of his work in the 1860s: chasing the ‘source’ of rivers near Ornans, serried ranks of waves on the coast, and the help of Corot.

June 4, 2019 General, Life, Painting

A complete guide to the free software available here: the Menu

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A complete structured guide to all the free utilities available from here, with links to product pages.

June 4, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

The First Impressionist? Johan Jongkind’s Bicentenary – Decline

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Born 200 years ago today, it was Jongkind who surely led the movement to Impressionism, with his loose and sketchy style.

June 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Rolling Thunder: stories of storms

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Every lightning bolt tells a story, with paintings by Rubens, Richard Wilson, Poussin, John Martin, Adam Elsheimer, William Blake, and more.

June 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Rolling Thunder: lightning in the landscape

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Superb paintings of lightning storms by Giorgione, Poussin, Delacroix, Constable, Bierstadt, Rousseau, Klimt, Bonnard, and Tom Thomson.

June 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Three Women in Church and a Christening

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A new mother carries her infant over the threshold of a church for their christening. But whose painting influenced Harriet Backer’s masterpiece?

May 31, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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