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Category Archive: General

Never download a Flash installer from anywhere except its official site

Never allow a dialog to con you into downloading or updating Adobe Flash Player: you could end up with crapware or worse.

October 19, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Sir Edward Poynter, a British Gérôme? 1, to 1879

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Reviled through the twentieth century, in his day he was one of the most eminent British artists. Is he due a revival?

October 19, 2016 General, Painting

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope: a different Pre-Raphaelite

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His early paintings were narrative and highly original. From the 1870s they changed, becoming more Aesthetic.

October 18, 2016 General, Painting

William Merritt Chase: a life in painting, 3 1891-1900

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His golden age, when each summer the family moved up to their house at Shinnecock, where he taught, and painted like never before.

October 17, 2016 General, Painting

Frederic, Lord Leighton: Classic and Aesthetic

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His later paintings became weaker in narrative to the point where some seemed almost trite. What was he up to?

October 16, 2016 General, Painting

Last Week on my Mac: Upgrade uptake

Shipping a major new release of an operating system is a shot in the dark. Is Sierra reaching its target?

October 16, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: the Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic

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His later paintings, after 1858, are quite different from those he made when a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. How?

October 15, 2016 General, Painting

William Merritt Chase: a life in painting, 2 1884-1890

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A busy period of work mainly in his New York studio, Chase met and painted with Whistler in London, and Sargent in New York.

October 14, 2016 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Mariana – Shakespeare or Tennyson?

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Several Pre-Raphaelites painted this character from a Shakespeare comedy, but as a symbol of despondent isolation. Why?

October 13, 2016 General, Language, Painting

Into the Light: Val Prinsep, the oriental Aesthetic

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Taught by Watts, a friend of Rossetti and Frederic, Lord Leighton, his paintings were popular, successful, and well known. Until the early 20th century.

October 12, 2016 General, Painting

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