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Category Archive: General

PDF without Adobe: 22 The fractious PDF

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Searching this PDF using Preview is hopeless. Is it a bug in Preview or macOS? How can you get proper access to its contents?

June 11, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Bicentenary of Gustave Courbet, a founding father of modern art

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A major influence of realism, leading to Naturalism, and on Impressionism, Courbet was one of those who paved the way for modern art.

June 10, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Great Wave 2, Courbet to Gauguin

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After European artists saw Hokusai’s print The Great Wave off Kanagawa, their own depictions became widespread, peaking in 1896.

June 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Great Wave 1, Vernet to Hokusai

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Painters paid little attention to the form of near-breaking regular waves until the mid-1700s. Japanese art later changed Western painting, with a single print by Hokusai.

June 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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

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