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Category Archive: General

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

Gustave Courbet 4: The erotic

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His best-known works of the 1860s are a series of erotic nudes. But two are missing, one destroyed by accident in studio before it could be shown, the other in Berlin in the 20th century.

May 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: Wood panels

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From the funerary portraits of Fayum, through the work of Jan van Eyck, to Leonardo, Rubens and Botticelli, many of the greatest paintings are on wood panels.

May 29, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Spam comments turn nasty: blackmail and ransom demands

In the stream of spam comments, a new and even more unwelcome message threatening to get your blog blacklisted unless you pay them a Bitcoin.

May 28, 2019 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 15 Lucifer

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The final canto of the Inferno takes Dante to see Lucifer himself, after which Virgil guides him back to the surface of earth.

May 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The First Impressionist? Johan Jongkind’s Bicentenary – Impressionism

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Met and painted with Sisley, Boudin, and the young Claude Monet, but so poor that other artists auctioned their works to relieve his poverty.

May 27, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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