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Category Archive: General

A Mac on the edge of Europe

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Barriers to living in more remote areas with high quality of life are being removed, but self-sufficiency is important. Changes in macOS do not help.

August 25, 2017 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Coast: On a clear day – from the cliff, Friedrich to Gude

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There’s two ways to paint a coastal cliff: from the beach, or on the top. Surprisingly few landscape painters have opted for the latter. Here are some examples.

August 24, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Degas’ Circle: After Impressionism

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Now seen as the odd man out of the Impressionists, at the time he had great influence. Here are samples of the work of those he influenced.

August 23, 2017 General, Painting

Degas’ Circle: Before Impressionism

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Degas was nothing if not thoroughly sociable. Here are some of his more significant artistic friendships, with paintings.

August 22, 2017 General, Painting

Storyspace and hypertext: index to articles (version 2)

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A listing of over 50 articles, and a detailed index of the topics covered in them, from adornments to zoom.

August 22, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 39 Scylla and Minos, and the Minotaur

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An important painting in its social context by Watts, tackling the evils of Victorian Britain, 2 from Moreau, and one of only 3 surviving paintings by a French history painter.

August 21, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

A Woman’s Work 2: Portrait of a Laundress

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The majority of portraits and genre paintings of women washing clothes are thoroughly demur, without the slightest innuendo.

August 20, 2017 General, Life, Painting

A Woman’s Work 1: Laundry in a Landscape

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Looking at paintings of women doing their laundry in a landscape view in historical context.

August 19, 2017 General, Life, Painting

The Nearly-Impressionist Jean-François Raffaëlli

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His involvement in the Impressionist Exhibitions almost broke the movement apart, and brought Degas into direct opposition with Monet. Here are his paintings.

August 18, 2017 General, Painting

Coast: Storms, 2 Bierstadt to Bellows

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Rough weather seen on the canvases of Bierstadt, Monet, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, and other fine artists.

August 17, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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