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Category Archive: General

Don’t die in the bath: mains power and mortality

It’s too easy to get blasé and careless with electricity. Don’t die in your bath: please follow these basic precautions.

March 24, 2017 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Franz von Stuck’s Thoroughly Modern Histories: 1 1887-1891

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Another narrative painter in Germany around the turn of the 20th century, he is known for his symbolism and femmes fatales.

March 23, 2017 General, Painting

Jules Breton’s Eternal Harvest: 1 1850-1859

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An independent pioneer of ‘social realism’, his densely-populated landscapes showed real people struggling to live in the north French countryside.

March 22, 2017 General, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 11 – Actaeon’s fatal mistake

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The grandson of the founder of Thebes suffers a grisly fate when he stumbles across the goddess Diana bathing naked.

March 21, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Two Roads to Magical Landscapes: Paul Nash and Nikolai Astrup

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Their landscapes developed a magic distinctive to the artist. Only by direct comparison are their similarities and differences made clear.

March 20, 2017 General, Painting

The Over-Exposed Warrior, the Suicide Pact, and the Almond Tree

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The Pre-Raphaelites lived intense and passionate lives. For Edward Burne-Jones, 1869 and 1870 were almost disastrous, when both art and life became too controversial.

March 19, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Still looking for help

When it was written, Apple’s documentation of its Help system was incomplete and misleading. It simply doesn’t work like that.

March 19, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Painting the Impossible: Smell

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Looking and sniffing at one of the toughest non-visual theme for paintings. Can any go beyond mere allegory and ev0ke the sensation?

March 18, 2017 General, Painting

Nikolai Astrup: Dark Sunlight 5 – 1925-28 and prints

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Some of his last magical paintings of the Norwegian mountains and farms, and a brief overview of the development of his prints.

March 17, 2017 General, Painting

Paul Nash: from ancient to surreal, 5 – 1943-1945

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His final series of Landscapes of the Moon and Aerial Flowers are among his most visionary, and refer to much of his previous work, and that of William Blake.

March 16, 2017 General, Painting

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