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Category Archive: General

APFS is currently unusable with most non-English languages

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APFS is not currently safe to use with names which might have Unicode normalisation issues – which means it is only safe with a limited ASCII character set.

April 6, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Jules Breton’s Eternal Harvest: 4 1877-1889

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Under pressure from his dealers, Breton concentrated on single figures in the countryside, typically at dawn or dusk. These have become some of his most popular paintings.

April 6, 2017 General, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 14 – Pentheus and Bacchus

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How you mustn’t look at what shouldn’t be seen: how Pentheus was torn limb from limb by his mother and aunts.

April 5, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Franz von Stuck’s Thoroughly Modern Histories: 3 1901-1909

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Exploring representations of women, from Amazons to Salome, in a series of thought-provoking images.

April 4, 2017 General, Painting

Cross-Dressing, Feminism, and the Greek Demi-God

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At the heart of Deianira’s letter to Hercules was the strange story of his enslavement to Omphale. Here are the paintings.

April 3, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

A Troubled Woman, Centaur’s Blood, and Hercules as Martyr

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A puzzling painting of a lone woman, wrestling with inner turmoil; a trap laid by a dying Centaur; a king with a thing for Hercules, and his promotion to being a saint.

April 2, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Fooled you! The deception of the trompe l’oeil

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Let these paintings fool you: that’s what they’re all about. Happy April Fool’s Day!

April 1, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Jules Breton’s Eternal Harvest: 3 1870-1876

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Dividing his time between his home in Courrières and Brittany, he broadened his range of subjects and views – with mounting success.

March 31, 2017 General, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 13 – Tiresias, Echo and Narcissus

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A challenge to painters: a story of a gender-changing seer, a nymph who becomes no more than an acoustic effect, and a young man who dies of self-love.

March 30, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Franz von Stuck’s Thoroughly Modern Histories: 2 1892-1900

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He explored new and recurrent themes, including the dark and erotic side of Eve, the Greek sphinx, and made an early painting of movement in dance.

March 29, 2017 General, Painting

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