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Category Archive: General

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 192

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 192. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Brisk […]

February 27, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Paintings of pigs 2

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Stories of Odysseus and Circe, the prodigal son, the miracle of the Gadarene swine, and St Anthony. And Félicien Rops’ ‘Pornocrates’?

February 26, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of pigs 1

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Paintings by Paulus Potter, George Morland, James Ward, Gustave Courbet, and others, showing plenty of pigs.

February 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 192

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Brisk march for […]

February 25, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 38 Fables in the 19th century

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Examples of painted fables from the 19th century, from Landseer, Millet, Moreau, Klimt, Morisot, Hodler, and Pierre Bonnard.

February 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 37 Fables to 1800

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Without a title and the story in a fable, paintings can be hard to identify, and even harder to read. Examples from 1500-1751.

February 23, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ukrainian Painters: Oleksandr Murashko

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In twenty years, he established himself as a leading figurative painter and portraitist, then was murdered. Now his remaining paintings are under threat.

February 22, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: Introduction to a new painting series

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Series telling the whole Epic Cycle from Zeus’s decision to reduce the mortal population, to the death of Odysseus.

February 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Not Like That: Fading into the past

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The colours you see in paintings today may have faded badly from their originals. Examples of madder lake, smalt and indigo.

February 20, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 191

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 191. Here are my solutions to them. 1: No […]

February 20, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

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