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Category Archive: General

Landscapes of the Ancients: John Linnell, early landscapes

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Almost forgotten now, apart from the help that he gave William Blake, he was the most prominent British landscape painter after Turner’s death.

January 11, 2017 General, Painting

If you’re still running El Capitan, Apple doesn’t care about you

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Does Xcode 8 support El Capitan, or does Apple leave it to developers to break the bad news to users?

January 11, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Changing Times: Lovis Corinth, 1901-1904

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Berlin, the vibrant city of modern arts, brought love and marriage – and a brief reprise of Salome too.

January 10, 2017 General, Painting

Hesiod’s Brush, the paintings of Gustave Moreau: 8 Into the sky

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He had 11 paintings shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, in 1878, following which he was commissioned to paint over 60 watercolours.

January 9, 2017 General, Painting

Tyger’s Eye: from William Blake to the Ancients and moderns

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Tracing Blake’s influence through his friends John Linnell and Samuel Palmer to the likes of Graham Sutherland and Eric Ravilious.

January 8, 2017 General, Painting

Last Week on my Mac: Creaky old internet

You may think that you type URLs into your browser. In fact they’re IRIs, and the internet still can’t cope with Unicode. Why not?

January 8, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Tyger’s eye: William Blake’s role models and peers – Barry, Flaxman, Mortimer, Stothard

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Blake did not exercise his genius and vision in isolation. Here are some paintings by those who influenced him most.

January 7, 2017 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: who killed John the Baptist? 3 Salome

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From the 1870s, Salome became the central figure in the story, and increasingly became the femme fatale: beautiful, sexy, and dangerous to know.

January 6, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Analysing and telling changing narrative in Storyspace 5

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Clarifying different types of web link, making custom badges, and using the Timeline to explore the origin of a new version of a story.

January 6, 2017 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

The Story in Paintings: who killed John the Baptist? 2 Doubt

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Some paintings which may not show the traditional story from the gospels, but which don’t contradict it.

January 5, 2017 General, Language, Painting

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